The bilingual development of plural marking in a Malay-English child

• Main Authors: Mohamed Salleh, Rabiah Tul Adawiyah, Di Biase, Bruno, Kawaguchi, Satomi
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English; English
• Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2023
• Subjects: P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/104225/1/104225_The%20bilingual%20development%20of%20plural%20marking.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/104225/2/104225_The%20bilingual%20development%20of%20plural%20marking_SCOPUS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/104225/; https://benjamins.com/catalog/palart.9.07moh

This study investigates the acquisition of plural encoding in a Malay-English bilingual first language acquirer from a Processability Theory (PT) perspective. In Malay, plurality is encoded through reduplication, while English uses morphological inflection. The child’s oral production was collected...