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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
Crymes, Ruth – 1968
Substitutes in English (such as "he,""she,""it,""one,""do so,""thus,""there," and "such") participate in an intricate network of systems. This study aims to identify those English substitutes which are words or word sequences and to describe their workings in some of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Grammar
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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