Referential place-holding in Chinese children's acquisition of English articles
| Autor: | Kang Lee, Catherine Ann Cameron, Anne Kathryn Hunt, Murrary J. Linton |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
| Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
Grammar Comprehension approach First language media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Language acquisition Language and Linguistics Linguistics Psycholinguistics Language transfer Language education Psychology General Psychology media_common English articles |
| Zdroj: | Applied Psycholinguistics. 15:29-43 |
| ISSN: | 1469-1817 0142-7164 |
| Popis: | This longitudinal study examines the acquisition of English articles by three 6-year-old, second language learning children whose native tongue is Chinese, a language without articles. Brown's coding scheme and an extended coding scheme were used in scoring the corpora of children's responses to a Syntax Elicitation Task. Results revealed that the Chinese children's acquisition of the definite article differed from- what had been previously found using Brown's coding scheme with English as first language learners and second language learning children of other native language origins. Chinese children's use of the definite article developed through an unmarked phase, a referential place-holding phase, a marked phase, and a referential substitution phase before the definite article was fully acquired. The acquisition of the indefinite article, on the other hand, was similar to the acquisition pattern already reported for children learning English as a first language or as a second language. It is suggested that referential place-holding, as well as referential substitution, might not be a Chinese-specific second language learning phenomenon; rather, they might be derived from a universal referential strategy for learning articles. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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