The acquisition of English and Mandarin by a Singaporean child in a trilingual home

• Main Author: Teo, Jennifer Lay Heong.
• Other Authors: Lim, Audrey
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Education::Language and education
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20322
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study investigated patterns of acquisition of English and Mandarin by a Singaporean child who has been raised in a code-switching type of speech environment. The relation of code-switching to the acquisition of bilingualism was analyzed too. The speech of the subject, a 23-month-old boy in a mi...