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Publication details [#38722]

Chen, E.S. 2004. Language convergence and bilingual acquisition: The case of conditional constructions. Annual Review of Language Acquisition 3 (1) : 89–137.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Journal DOI
10.1075/arla

Annotation

This study concerns the simultaneous acquisition of conditional constructions in Chinese-English bilingual preschool children in Singapore. Cross-sectional data were obtained from subjects ranging from 2;10 to 6;06. The target languages are Singapore Colloquial English (SCE) and Singapore Colloquial Mandarin (SCM), both of which are contact varieties that are representative of the Low varieties in a diglossic situation. The bilingual acquisition of structural features of conditionals was investigated by adopting the Head-marking and Dependent-marking typological framework (Nichols 1986).