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ArticleOpen Access http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2023.07.038

Cross-linguistic Influence on Word Order: Evidence from the Uyghur Bilingual Children in China

Kelibinuer Tuerhong

College of Foreign Language, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.

*Corresponding author: Kelibinuer Tuerhong

Published: August 23,2023

Abstract

Due to the typological dissimilarities between two languages, there are always errors in bilingual children`s production of L2 resulted from them negative transfer from L1. The issue of language transfer is widely investigated between many different languages and there is also a focus on analyzing language transfer between Chinese and other western languages. However, the language transfer between Chinese and the minority languages in China is rarely studied. We randomly selected linguistic data of Uyghur-Chinese bilingual children and Chinese monolingual children from CHILDES data base to investigate the language transfer on word order between Uyghur and Chinese. The result shows that the bilingual children`s error rate of the SOV word order is higher than the monolingual children. And SOV word order structures produced by monolingual children mainly belong to the “Subject+ ba/gei/rang+ object+ verb” sentence structure, which is a special type of word order and semantically and grammatically acceptable in China. This may provide some practical data for investigating language transfer on word order between different languages, especially typologically distant languages.

Keywords

Cross-linguistic influence, word order, Uyghur-Chinese bilinguals

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How to cite this paper

Cross-linguistic Influence on Word Order: Evidence from the Uyghur Bilingual Children in China

How to cite this paper: Kelibinuer Tuerhong. (2023) Cross-linguistic Influence on Word Order: Evidence from the Uyghur Bilingual Children in China. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science7(7), 1445-1450.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2023.07.038