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- Title
Children's Second-Language Acquisition: The Role of Foreigner Talk in Child-Child Interaction.
- Authors
Katz, Joel T.
- Abstract
This article explores the role of foreigner talk input in child second language acquisition. Regarding the prevalent use of FT, a girl uses it a relatively small percentage of the time, even if one adjusts the figures by eliminating from the tally those utterances where the girl simply calls her friend's name. Second, the percentage of FT varies within a relatively narrow range, 2-19%. In general, the amount of phonological features within a given session increases while the amount of morphosyntactic features decreases. As a native speaker grows familiar with the foreigner's second language output, the native speaker gradually becomes aware that besides phonological perculiarities, there are structural, morphosyntactic deviations from the second language target. On this account, the phonological features of the foreigner's second language would recede from aural prominence over time, and the morphosyntactic character of the second language output would become increasingly noticeable. To the extent that FT is imitative of foreigners' approximations to a second language target the pattern would be mirrored in the native speaker's FT. Thus, phonological FT markers should decline over time or at least remain constant.
- Subjects
CHILDREN'S language; SECOND language acquisition; LANGUAGE acquisition; PHONETICS; LINGUISTICS
- Publication
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1981, Vol 1981, Issue 28, p53
- ISSN
0165-2516
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ijsl.1981.28.53