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oapen-20.500.12657-857652023-12-05T02:27:56Z Children’s English in Singapore Buschfeld, Sarah Child Language Acquisition;cognitive linguistics;First Language Acquisition methodology;Language variation;L1 Singapore English;language organization;multilingual;multilingualism;multilingual Singapore;Singaporean children;Singapore English;World Englishes;youth bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFD Psycholinguistics bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFB Sociolinguistics bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics Combining the World Englishes framework with First Language Acquisition methodology, this book investigates children’s acquisition of L1 English in the context of multilingual Singapore, one of the traditional Kachruvian Outer Circle or ESL countries. The book investigates language choice, use, and dominance in Singaporean families, identifies common linguistic characteristics of L1 Singapore English, as well as the acquisitional route that Singaporean children take. It discusses characteristics at the different levels of language organization, i.e., phonological, morphosyntactic, lexical, and pragmatic features, drawing on a variety of systematically elicited data and Praat-based acoustic analyses. Comparing the results to similar data obtained from children living in England (both mono- and bi-/multilingual), the book also sheds light on how the acquisitional steps taken by Singaporean children differ from or are similar to traditional native speakers of English and children from immigrant families in England. 2023-12-04T10:50:06Z 2023-12-04T10:50:06Z 2020 book 9781138708877 9781032082028 9781315201030 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85765 eng Routledge Studies in World Englishes application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781351780797.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315201030 10.4324/9781315201030 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781138708877 9781032082028 9781315201030 Routledge 317 open access
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Combining the World Englishes framework with First Language Acquisition methodology, this book investigates children’s acquisition of L1 English in the context of multilingual Singapore, one of the traditional Kachruvian Outer Circle or ESL countries.
The book investigates language choice, use, and dominance in Singaporean families, identifies common linguistic characteristics of L1 Singapore English, as well as the acquisitional route that Singaporean children take. It discusses characteristics at the different levels of language organization, i.e., phonological, morphosyntactic, lexical, and pragmatic features, drawing on a variety of systematically elicited data and Praat-based acoustic analyses. Comparing the results to similar data obtained from children living in England (both mono- and bi-/multilingual), the book also sheds light on how the acquisitional steps taken by Singaporean children differ from or are similar to traditional native speakers of English and children from immigrant families in England.
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