Syntactic development in a Malay-English bilingual child: testing the prominence hypothesis and the lexical mapping hypothesis.

Mohamed Salleh, Rabiah Tul Adawiyah and Kawaguchi, Satomi and Di Biase, Bruno (2018) Syntactic development in a Malay-English bilingual child: testing the prominence hypothesis and the lexical mapping hypothesis. In: 18th International Symposium of Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition (PALA), 14th-15th September 2018, Sydney, Australia. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Processability Theory (Pienemann, 1998, 2005) was originally developed to predict second language learners morphological and syntactic development over a single hierarchy. Further work on L2 syntax proposed extending the theory to include the Unmarked Alignment hypothesis, the Topic hypothesis and the Lexical Mapping hypothesis (Pienemann, Di Biase & Kawaguchi, 2005) assuming that learners begin with the least marked syntactic forms and proceed towards more marked structures. Recently, Bettoni and Di Biase (2015) propose to unify the Unmarked alignment hypothesis and the Topic hypothesis, replacing them with a single Prominence Hypothesis and proposed some minor adjustment for the Lexical Mapping hypothesis. This study analyses a bilingual Malay-English child’s syntactic development from the Prominence hypothesis and Lexical mapping hypothesis perspectives. The child was recorded in separate English and Malay contexts from age 2:10 until 4:8. Findings show that for the Prominence Hypothesis, the child begins with a canonical word order in both languages before proceeding to more marked sentence structures. For the Lexical Mapping hypothesis, the child also begins with the default thematic mapping before proceeding to nondefault mapping. These new PT hypotheses are tested for the first time in Malay-English bilingual development.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Slide Presentation)
Additional Information:	8297/74551
Uncontrolled Keywords:	bilingual child, Malay-English
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PE English
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of English Language & Literature Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences
Depositing User:	Dr. Rabiah Tul Adawiyah Mohamed Salleh
Date Deposited:	05 Nov 2019 14:27
Last Modified:	05 Nov 2019 14:27
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/74551

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