1887
Volume 15, Issue 2
  • ISSN 0155-0640
  • E-ISSN: 1833-7139
USD
Buy:$35.00 + Taxes

Abstract

A bilingual child’s development of word order in German and English subordinate clauses was followed between three and five years of age, and a number of diversions from the development of word order in such clauses by monolingual children was noted. Of particular interest is the fact that incorrect dependent clause structures in German were more likely to be due to intra-language influences from German main clause structures than from English. The findings are discussed in the light UG claims made by Clahsen (1988) concerning the word order development in monolingual children.

Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journals/10.1075/aral.15.2.08dop
1992-01-01
2024-10-03
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

References

  1. Clahsen, H.
    (1988) Normale und gestörte Kindersprache. Amsterdam, Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/z.33
    https://doi.org/10.1075/z.33 [Google Scholar]
  2. Cummins, J.
    (1979) Linguistic interdependence and the educational development of bilingual children. Review of Educational Research49:222–251. doi: 10.3102/00346543049002222
    https://doi.org/10.3102/00346543049002222 [Google Scholar]
  3. Meisel, J.
    (1986) Word order and case marking in early child language. Evidence from simultaneous acquisition of of two first languages: French and German. Linguistics24:123–183. doi: 10.1515/ling.1986.24.1.123
    https://doi.org/10.1515/ling.1986.24.1.123 [Google Scholar]
  4. (1989) Early differentiation of languages in bilingual children. In K. Hylstenstam and L. Obler (eds) Bilingualism across the lifespan. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511611780.003
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511611780.003 [Google Scholar]
  5. (ed.) (1990) Two First Languages. Dordrecht, Foris. doi: 10.1515/9783110846065
    https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110846065 [Google Scholar]
  6. Platzack, C.
    (1983) Germanic word order and the COMP/INFL parameter. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax2:1–45.
    [Google Scholar]
/content/journals/10.1075/aral.15.2.08dop
Loading
  • Article Type: Research Article
This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was successful
Invalid data
An Error Occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error