Investigation of parents' choice of topic-comment sentence construction during parent-child talk using narratives collected from the talk together study

• Main Author: Ng, Sing Xuan
• Other Authors: Suzy Styles
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Social Sciences; Translanguaging; Topic-comment structure; Subject-predicate structure; Information structure; Bilingualism; Parent-child interaction
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/175652
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Different languages have different grammatical rules and sentence structures used to organise information in sentences (Laleko, 2022; Matić, 2015). Singapore speakers frequently translanguage, where they fluidly use linguistics resources from various languages including Mandarin and Malay without se...