Language development of bilingual children The acquisition of tense and aspect in an Italian-Indonesian child

A case study

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6174352
AutoresAntonia Soriente (University of Naples Federico II, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume15
Fascículo1
Páginas131-131
Data de publicação2013-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1411-2272 • E-ISSN: 2407-6899
EditoraWacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17510/wjhi.v15i1.108
OpenAlexW2033479786
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas14

This paper describes the development of temporal expressions in a bilingual child acquiring two typologically distinct languages: Italian and Indonesian. These languages differ from one another in the way tense and aspect are encoded and it is interesting to observe what kind of cross-linguistic influence one language system has on the other. Italian verbs are heavily inflected for person, number as well as for tense, aspect and mood, whereas, in Indonesian, the encoding of tense and aspect is lexical rather than morphological; moreover encoding is optional when the context is sufficiently clear. This means that tense and aspect in Indonesian is often marked pragmatically rather than grammatically. This paper considers the interference effects that result from simultaneously acquiring these two typologically distinct systems

Context (archaeology · Encoding (memory · Indonesian · Linguistics · Computer Science · History · Language Development and Disorders · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence