The bilingual development of plural marking in a Malay-English child

Mohamed Salleh, Rabiah Tul Adawiyah and Di Biase, Bruno and Kawaguchi, Satomi (2023) The bilingual development of plural marking in a Malay-English child. In: Processability and Language Acquisition in the Asia-Pacific region. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, pp. 165-191. ISBN 9789027212870

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Abstract

This study investigates the acquisition of plural encoding in a Malay-English bilingual first language acquirer from a Processability Theory (PT) perspective. In Malay, plurality is encoded through reduplication, while English uses morphological inflection. The child’s oral production was collected weekly from age 3;4 to 3;10 using natural conversation and elicitation tasks in separate Malay and English sessions. Expressions for singular and plural contexts are analysed based on PT. Results suggest that pluralisation in each language followed PT, they add to the applicability of PT to bilingual first language acquisition (BFLA), and reveal some novel typological sequences, Cross-linguistic influences were found in plural encodings in each language. Also, a prosodic feature usefully disambiguated between Malay ‘iteration’ (Lemma) and ‘reduplication’ (Category procedure).

Item Type:	Book Chapter
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Processability Theory, bilingualism, plural acquisition
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of English Language & Literature
Depositing User:	Dr. Rabiah Tul Adawiyah Mohamed Salleh
Date Deposited:	30 Mar 2023 12:01
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2023 12:01
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/104225

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