The acquisition of word order in yes/no and wh-questions - A case study of an unbalanced bilingual.
This thesis aims to explore the variation with which one bilingual child produces word order in English questions, and ask whether the child’s dominant language, Norwegian, affects this production. Using new data from a corpus where data collection is still ongoing, we present evidence that the chil...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/16100 2023-05-15T18:34:25+02:00 The acquisition of word order in yes/no and wh-questions - A case study of an unbalanced bilingual. Brattsti, Fredrick 2019-05-14 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/16100 eng eng UiT Norges arktiske universitet UiT The Arctic University of Norway https://hdl.handle.net/10037/16100 openAccess Copyright 2019 The Author(s) VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Engelsk språk: 020 VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::English language: 020 Bilingual First Language Acquisition (BFLA) Word order Wh- and yes/no questions Minimalist theory Cross-linguistic influence (CLI) ENG-3982 Master thesis Mastergradsoppgave 2019 ftunivtroemsoe 2021-06-25T17:56:49Z This thesis aims to explore the variation with which one bilingual child produces word order in English questions, and ask whether the child’s dominant language, Norwegian, affects this production. Using new data from a corpus where data collection is still ongoing, we present evidence that the child transfers the word order for questions in both standard Norwegian and the Tromsø dialect into her English, in both a facilitative and a non-facilitative way. The word order for questions in standard Norwegian and English is identical, verb in second position (V2), with the exception of questions where neither an auxiliary nor the copula BE is present in the initial structure. The word order for questions in the Tromsø dialect exhibits some optionality in certain wh-questions, in that wh-questions with a monosyllabic wh-element may be produced with the verb in third position (non-V2), depending on information structure. We conclude that the child’s production of word order in English yes/no and wh-questions is affected by her dominant language, but that the extent of said effect is uncertain due to limited data. Master Thesis Tromsø University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Tromsø |
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VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Engelsk språk: 020 VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::English language: 020 Bilingual First Language Acquisition (BFLA) Word order Wh- and yes/no questions Minimalist theory Cross-linguistic influence (CLI) ENG-3982 |
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VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Engelsk språk: 020 VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::English language: 020 Bilingual First Language Acquisition (BFLA) Word order Wh- and yes/no questions Minimalist theory Cross-linguistic influence (CLI) ENG-3982 Brattsti, Fredrick The acquisition of word order in yes/no and wh-questions - A case study of an unbalanced bilingual. |
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VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Engelsk språk: 020 VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::English language: 020 Bilingual First Language Acquisition (BFLA) Word order Wh- and yes/no questions Minimalist theory Cross-linguistic influence (CLI) ENG-3982 |
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This thesis aims to explore the variation with which one bilingual child produces word order in English questions, and ask whether the child’s dominant language, Norwegian, affects this production. Using new data from a corpus where data collection is still ongoing, we present evidence that the child transfers the word order for questions in both standard Norwegian and the Tromsø dialect into her English, in both a facilitative and a non-facilitative way. The word order for questions in standard Norwegian and English is identical, verb in second position (V2), with the exception of questions where neither an auxiliary nor the copula BE is present in the initial structure. The word order for questions in the Tromsø dialect exhibits some optionality in certain wh-questions, in that wh-questions with a monosyllabic wh-element may be produced with the verb in third position (non-V2), depending on information structure. We conclude that the child’s production of word order in English yes/no and wh-questions is affected by her dominant language, but that the extent of said effect is uncertain due to limited data. |
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Brattsti, Fredrick |
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The acquisition of word order in yes/no and wh-questions - A case study of an unbalanced bilingual. |
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The acquisition of word order in yes/no and wh-questions - A case study of an unbalanced bilingual. |
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The acquisition of word order in yes/no and wh-questions - A case study of an unbalanced bilingual. |
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The acquisition of word order in yes/no and wh-questions - A case study of an unbalanced bilingual. |
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The acquisition of word order in yes/no and wh-questions - A case study of an unbalanced bilingual. |
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acquisition of word order in yes/no and wh-questions - a case study of an unbalanced bilingual. |
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UiT Norges arktiske universitet |
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2019 |
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