ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON A MALAY BILINGUAL CHILD’S SYNTACTIC AWARENESS
Keywords:
Exclusionary, Dehumanizing, Binary, Dark Lady, Bright Friend, White Privilege, WhitenessAbstract
By the age of 6 months old, the early production of language begins. Starting from this age, children will be able to use more than one word and they will be able to relate one word to another in creating sentences or phrases to convey meaning. For bilingual children, it is common for them to mix up words between two languages in their utterances. However, they are still able to make a distinction. Thus, this study presents an observation of the author on the syntactic awareness of a Malay child who was acquiring Malay at the same time as she was acquiring English and how different environments influenced the subject’s syntactic development. In addition, the cognitivist theory by Noam Chomsky will be discussed in view of explaining the significance of environmental influences as the main variable of this study.
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