Syntactic development in a Malay-English bilingual child: testing the prominence hypothesis and the lexical mapping hypothesis.

• Main Authors: Mohamed Salleh, Rabiah Tul Adawiyah, Kawaguchi, Satomi, Di Biase, Bruno
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: PE English
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/74551/1/PALA%202018.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/74551/7/International%20Islamic%20University%20Malaysia%20Mail%20-%20PALA%202018_your%20abstract.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/74551/8/abstract%20PT%20%281%29.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/74551/
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

Processability Theory (Pienemann, 1998, 2005) was originally developed to predict second language learners morphological and syntactic development over a single hierarchy. Further work on L2 syntax proposed extending the theory to include the Unmarked Alignment hypothesis, the Topic hypothesis and t...