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An Asymmetry in the Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Evidence from Tagalog
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Tanaka, Nozomi; O'Grady, William; Deen, Kamil; Bondoc, Ivan Paul – First Language, 2019
This article reports on the acquisition of relative clauses in Tagalog, the most widely spoken language in the Philippines. A distinctive feature of Tagalog is a unique system of voice that creates competing patterns, each with different possibilities for relativization. This study of children's performance on agent and patient relative clauses in…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Tagalog, Language Patterns, Native Language
Code-Switching in Television Advertisements
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Banatao, Mary Ann B.; Malenab-Temporal, Conchita – TESOL International Journal, 2018
Students' preferences are being shaped by what they view in advertisements. Hence, this study examined the occurrence of code-switching in Philippine TV advertisements. Particularly, it analyzed syntactic patterns of code-switching, pragmatic/discourse functions and motivations present in the code-switched ads aired from the country's giant TV…
Descriptors: Television, Advertising, Code Switching (Language), Syntax
Pragmatic Differentiation in Early Trilingual Development
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Montanari, Simona – Journal of Child Language, 2009
This study examines pragmatic differentiation in early trilingual development through a longitudinal analysis of language choice in a developing Tagalog-Spanish-English trilingual child. The child's patterns of language choice with different language users are analyzed at age 1 ; 10 and 2 ; 4 to examine: (1) whether evidence for pragmatic…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Pragmatics, Multilingualism, Longitudinal Studies
English Language Narratives of Filipino Children
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Lofranco, Lee Ann L.; Pena, Elizabeth D.; Bedore, Lisa M. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2006
Purpose: The current study focuses on describing the English language narrative skills of children who have been exposed to the Filipino language. Method: Eight children between the ages of 6;0 (years;months) and 7;7 who spoke primarily English but who were exposed to the Filipino language at home participated. Each child produced three narrative…
Descriptors: English, Personal Narratives, Ethnic Groups, Second Languages
Studies in Philippine Linguistics. Vol. 2, No. 1.
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Edrial-Luzares, Casilda, Ed.; Hale, Austin, Ed. – 1978
This volume is devoted to papers of an empirical or theoretical nature contributing to the study of language and communicative bahavior in the Philippines. Articles included are: (1) "Three Criteria for Establishing Dialect Boundries," by Michael Ross Walrod; (2) "Topic in Tagalog Revisited," by Teresita C. Rafael; (3)…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Case (Grammar), Cebuano, Creoles
The Concept of Core Language and the Notional-Rhetorical Approach to Second Language Teaching.
Chellappan, K. – International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, 1981
This paper focuses on the mechanism by which the successful learner acquires a second language. The author postulates a core language, the common core of the speaker's native and target languages, and states that the second language becomes an extension of this common core. Whatever language-specific features are added while acquiring the second…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dravidian Languages, French