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Acquisition of English plural marking by a Cantonese-English bilingual child: A corpus-based case study
Author(s)
Date Issued
2022
ISSN
2376-760X
Citation
Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2022, vol. 9(2), pp. 81-95.
URI
Type
Peer Reviewed Journal Article
Abstract
With regard to the nature of simultaneous bilingual acquisition, more studies on different
aspects of bilingual language acquisition are required to determine whether these two
linguistic systems are developed autonomously or interdependently. This corpus-based
longitudinal study aims to provide new evidence concerning this controversial issue by
examining the acquisition of English plural marking by a Cantonese-English simultaneous
bilingual child and an English-speaking monolingual child. The results revealed that, overall, the
bilingual child produced more errors in plural marking, with all of them being required but
omitted (RO) errors. Moreover, it was found that over-regularisation (OG) was absent in the
bilingual’s production of plurals. Furthermore, regarding the development sequence, it was
found that the bilingual child lagged behind the monolingual child and achieved mastery of
plural marking at a later age, which may have been related to the inevitably less frequent
English input received by the bilingual child.
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