Abstract
![CDATA[In this paper, I report on a study which investigated how one Japanese-English bilingual child developed discourse functions in the two languages. Rather than focussing only on the child’s syntactic development of the two languages, this study considers the interface between syntax and pragmatics. I pay particular attention to the assignment of topic (TOP) by the child in Japanese and English. The assignment of TOP is very closely connected to pragmatics. Japanese and English use different methods to assign TOP. I will investigate whether the Japanese-English bilingual child develops to assign TOP in each language in a language-specific manner.]]
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Research in Second Language Acquisition : Empirical Evidence Across Languages |
| Editors | Jörg-U. Kessler, Dagmar Keatinge |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Cambridge Scholars |
| Pages | 41-66 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781443809610 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Keywords
- bilingualism
- language acquisition