The Step-Tongue: Children's English in Singapore

Abstract

Part 1 Native speakers of English in Singapore: introduction Diglossia in Singapore English features of SCE and StdE SCE features StdE features who are the native speakers? how numerous are the native speakers? Singapore censuses, 1980 and 1990 history of English in Singapore the schools the pupils the teachers the languages language situation in early schools the present situation SCE in Singapore today. Part 2 Acquiring Singapore colloquial English: introduction acquiring a Creole the children in my study the boys' family the girls' family linguistic repertoire learning SCE beginning to be Diglossic acquiring pragmatic particles in SCE. Part 3 Acquisition of interrogatives: introduction interrogative structures in SCE X-interrogatives order of acquisition of wh-words X-interrogatives with missing constituent development of X-interrogatives what, where and who which and how many fronting of wh-words - why and how trends in main clause X-interrogatives polar interrogatives.

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