Article
University of Malaya
Research Project Proposal
TXGB 6106
Psychology of Language Learning
Name:Siti Nur Najmin bt. Aminuddin Student No.
Topic: Can Toddy Give Me an Orange? Parent Input and Young Children’s Production of I and You
Purpose: explore the ways in which children respond to parent input as they discover the meaning and use of I and you. We utilized corpora from the CHILDES database (MacWhinney, 2000) to examine the relation between parent patterns of self- and other-reference and the developmental trajectories of pronoun use for self- and other-reference by their children.
Objectives: 1. To describe in detail both parent input patterns and child patterns of pronoun production. 2. To test the hypothesis (cf. Chiat,1986; Macnamara, 1982; Oshima- Takane, 1999) that parent input that deviates from standard English usage, that is, input that contains a mix of person names and personal pronouns, will enable children to more easily map pronouns to the conversational roles of speaker and listener.
Research Questions:
Theoretical Framework:
Researchers tried to explore the ways in which children respond to parent input as they discover the meaning and use of I and you. They utilized corpora from the CHILDES database (MacWhinney, 2000) toexamine the relation between parent patterns of self- and other-reference and the developmental trajectories of pronoun use for self- and other-reference by their children
Research Methodology:
In order to locate corpora for the study, we searched the entire CHILDES database (MacWhinney,2000) for cases that ideally met the following criteria for children’s use of I and you: at least a monthly observation schedule; at least one month of observation available before a child’s productive used of self-reference
Research Project Proposal
TXGB 6106
Psychology of Language Learning
Name:Siti Nur Najmin bt. Aminuddin Student No.
Topic: Can Toddy Give Me an Orange? Parent Input and Young Children’s Production of I and You
Purpose: explore the ways in which children respond to parent input as they discover the meaning and use of I and you. We utilized corpora from the CHILDES database (MacWhinney, 2000) to examine the relation between parent patterns of self- and other-reference and the developmental trajectories of pronoun use for self- and other-reference by their children.
Objectives: 1. To describe in detail both parent input patterns and child patterns of pronoun production. 2. To test the hypothesis (cf. Chiat,1986; Macnamara, 1982; Oshima- Takane, 1999) that parent input that deviates from standard English usage, that is, input that contains a mix of person names and personal pronouns, will enable children to more easily map pronouns to the conversational roles of speaker and listener.
Research Questions:
Theoretical Framework:
Researchers tried to explore the ways in which children respond to parent input as they discover the meaning and use of I and you. They utilized corpora from the CHILDES database (MacWhinney, 2000) toexamine the relation between parent patterns of self- and other-reference and the developmental trajectories of pronoun use for self- and other-reference by their children
Research Methodology:
In order to locate corpora for the study, we searched the entire CHILDES database (MacWhinney,2000) for cases that ideally met the following criteria for children’s use of I and you: at least a monthly observation schedule; at least one month of observation available before a child’s productive used of self-reference