Publications

Publication details [#31957]

Gupta, Anthea Fraser. 1992. The pragmatic particles of Singapore colloquial English. Journal of Pragmatics 18 (1) : 31–57.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

L1-acquisition | language variety | loanword | pragmatic particle

Language as a subject

Chinese | English, Singapore

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study demonstrates that children, learning Singapore Colloquial English as a native language, easily acquire eleven pragmatic particles that consitute loans from Southern Chinese varieties.