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The Step tongue
Author | : Anthea Fraser Gupta |
Publsiher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1853592293 |
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In Singapore, multilingualism is the norm, and English (often the local variety) is widely acquired and used. This book examines the social and historical context of children's English in Singapore, and traces the development of four Singaporean children who have English as a native language. The implications for education and speech therapy are discussed.
Children s English in Singapore
Author | : Sarah Buschfeld |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2019-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781351780780 |
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Combining the World Englishes framework with First Language Acquisition methodology, this book investigates children’s acquisition of L1 English in the context of multilingual Singapore, one of the traditional Kachruvian Outer Circle or ESL countries. The book investigates language choice, use, and dominance in Singaporean families, identifies common linguistic characteristics of L1 Singapore English, as well as the acquisitional route that Singaporean children take. It discusses characteristics at the different levels of language organization, i.e., phonological, morphosyntactic, lexical, and pragmatic features, drawing on a variety of systematically elicited data and Praat-based acoustic analyses. Comparing the results to similar data obtained from children living in England (both mono- and bi-/multilingual), the book also sheds light on how the acquisitional steps taken by Singaporean children differ from or are similar to traditional native speakers of English and children from immigrant families in England.
Child Language Development in Singapore and Malaysia
Author | : Anna Kwan-Terry |
Publsiher | : NUS Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9971691493 |
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In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the English used in Singapore and Malaysia, including how children in these two countries acquire the languages used around them, particularly on their acquisition of English. This book is the first attempt to bring together studies on various aspects of this subject done by academics from the two countries. It begins with two background papers on the linguistic situation in Singapore and Malaysia, followed by studies of the cognitive development of children as it relates to language development. The third and fourth sections of the book contain papers dealing variously with the sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic aspects of language use with important implications on language learning and teaching in a multilingual context.
Singapore English
Author | : Jakob R. E. Leimgruber |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2013-05-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781107355255 |
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In recent years the study of English and its global varieties has grown rapidly as a field of study. The English language in Singapore, famous for its vernacular known as 'Singlish', is of particular interest to linguists because it takes accent, dialect and lexical features from a wide range of languages including Malay, Mandarin, Hokkien and Tamil, as well as being influenced by the Englishes of Britain, Australia and America. This book gives a comprehensive overview of English in Singapore by setting it within a historical context and drawing on recent developments in the field of indexicality, world Englishes and corpus research. Through application of the indexicality framework Jakob Leimgruber offers readers a new way of thinking about and analysing the unique syntactic, semantic and phonological structure of Singapore English. This book is ideal for researchers and advanced students interested in Singapore and its languages.
English in Singapore
Author | : Lisa Lim,Anne Pakir,Lionel Wee |
Publsiher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2010-06-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789888028429 |
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English in Singapore provides an up-to-date, detailed and comprehensive investigation into the various issues surrounding the sociolinguistics of English in Singapore. Rather than attempting to cover the usual topics in an overview of a variety of English in a particular country, the essays in this volume are important for identifying some of the most significant issues pertaining to the state and status of English in Singapore in modern times, and for doing so in a treatment that involves a critical evaluation of work in the field and new and thought-provoking angles for reviewing such issues in the context of Singapore in the twenty-first century. The contributions address the historical trajectory of English (past, present and possible future), its position in relation to language policy and multiculturalism, the relationship between the standard and colloquial varieties, and how English can and should be taught. This book is thus essential reading for scholars and students concerned with how the dynamics of the English language are played out and managed in a modern society such as Singapore. It will also interest readers who have a more general interest in Asian studies, the sociology of language, and World Englishes.
Speaking of Children
Author | : CHILDREN'S Society S'PORE,S'PORE |
Publsiher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2015-09-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789814699280 |
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"The book sheds light on the transformation of childhood in Singapore, over our many milestones. It is a collection of lectures by distinguished authorities on various aspects of childhood. They encompass a rich mix of historical material and personal anecdotes garnered from the speakers themselves and their respective professional expertise. Salient questions from the audience are also included with the speakers' replies."--
Crosslinguistic Influence in Singapore English
Author | : Ming Chew Teo |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2020-01-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780429873874 |
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In a social setting where speakers with several languages interact extensively, a major source of variation in Colloquial Singapore English comes from the complex interaction between crosslinguistic influences and various social and linguistic factors. By unifying both social and linguistic aspects of the phenomenon through the use of multivariate analyses like logistic regressions and Poisson regressions, this book represents a novel approach to the study of crosslinguistic influence in Colloquial Singapore English. As multivariate analyses provide us with information regarding the relative strengths of each social and linguistic factor, they are useful tools that allow us to have a more nuanced understanding of crosslinguistic influence in contact situations. Linguistic features from a variety of linguistic domains – morphology, semantics, and discourse – will be quantified, and statistical analyses will be run in R to determine the degree to which various social and linguistic factors affect the extent of crosslinguistic influence. Well-known Singlish features like the optionality of past tense and plural marking, the unique meanings of already, got, and one, and discourse particles lah, leh, and lor, are analyzed using this approach. The statistical modeling of these features is a first step towards creating a unified framework to understanding crosslinguistic influence.
The Making of Vernacular Singapore English
Author | : Zhiming Bao |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2015-08-14 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781107022089 |
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Charts the history of Singapore English and explores the linguistic, historical and social factors that have influenced the variety as it is spoken today. This study will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on language contact, world varieties of English, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics.