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CHILD LANGUAGE RESEARCH

A bibliography of Singapore child language
Madalena Cruz-Ferreira (Editor)
Department of English Language & Literature, NUS
December 2007

Presentation

The following is an update on a bibliography of research in Singapore child language. The update concerns 47 items, added in December 2007 to the 266 entries dating from the last update in May 2006. The bibliography spans the past two and a half decades up to ongoing studies on monolingual or multilingual English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil as used in Singapore, by and to typically and atypically developing children, at home or elsewhere. It includes research on educational and pedagogical issues, as well as on developmental norming and remediation.

The present scope of the bibliography stems from several limitations. Self-imposed limitations concern, for example, the omission of references, whether published or academic research pieces, whose titles I found vague and whose abstracts are unavailable to resolve this vagueness, and the inclusion of studies dealing with the language used to the child, on my assumption that analyses of child language can only make sense with clear information about linguistic targets surrounding the child. One more inherent limitation concerns my illiteracy in three of the four languages used in Singapore, which explains the near-absence of references written in Chinese, Malay and Tamil.

The long-term goal of this bibliographical database is to provide a regularly updated source of information on child language research in the broader South-East Asian region, preferably in different languages. It is my hope that researchers in child language, in Singapore as elsewhere in the SE Asian region, will want to come back to me with amendments, information and suggestions which may turn this bibliography into a research tool that can truly serve its users.

Putting together a usable bibliography is not a one-person assignment. The following colleagues (this includes current and past students) generously contributed contacts and details on their own research, as well as their time: Norhaida Aman, Chris Brebner, Chen Ee San, Deborah Chua, Joseph A. Foley, Goh Hock Huan, Anthea Fraser Gupta, Low Ee Ling, Cynthia Macknish, Ng Bee Chin, Tomasina Oh, Susan J. Rickard Liow, Hazel See Lei Chia, Seetha Lakshmi, Rita E. Silver, Tan Liang Hui, Tan Seok Hui and Linda Thompson. I should also acknowledge the help I got from the SCLSIG (Singapore Child Language Special Interest Group, groups.yahoo.com/group/sclsig/) and the unfailing support from the SAAL Quarterly's editors and webmaster. Thank you for making this undertaking possible.

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Abbreviations

Academic research pieces are given by their standard abbreviations (PhD, D.Phil, MA, MSc, MEd, HT), and all are unpublished. Other abbreviations are:

CRPP: Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (NIE)
IASCL: International Association for the Study of Child Language
NIE: National Institute of Education (Nanyang Technological University)
NUS: National University of Singapore
RELC: SEAMEO Regional Language Centre

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