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A comparison of the expression of simultaneity in Thai and English adults and children using short animations
SEALS XVI: papers from the 16th annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics, pp.135-142
16th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society(SEALXVI) (Atma Jaya University, Jakarta, Indonesia., 20/09/2006 - 21/09/2006)
2008
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Abstract
The aim of the present study was to investigate the linguistic devices that Thai and English children aged 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years and adults use to express simultaneous or overlapping temporal relations depicted in short animations. Thai has imperfective aspectual morphemes but they are not morphologically grammaticalized on the verb and usage in general is optional and not obligatory. These particular aspectual characteristics of Thai form an interesting comparison with English, which has obligatory grammaticised aspectual marking on the verb. An additional aim is to investigate if these grammatical differences and degrees of obligatoriness of aspectual marking in English and Thai affect what particular aspects of the external simultaneous events depicted in the animations are expressed, and if so, do children and adults show the same language-specific patterns?
Details
- Title
- A comparison of the expression of simultaneity in Thai and English adults and children using short animations
- Creators
- Heather Winskel - University of Western SydneyS Luksaneeyanawin - Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Contributors
- Paul Sidwell (Editor)Uri Tadmor (Editor)
- Publication Details
- SEALS XVI: papers from the 16th annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics, pp.135-142
- Conference
- 16th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society(SEALXVI) (Atma Jaya University, Jakarta, Indonesia., 20/09/2006 - 21/09/2006)
- Publisher
- Pacific Linguistics
- Number of pages
- 135-142
- Identifiers
- 2049; 991012821540402368
- Copyright
- © Heather Winskel & Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health; Human Sciences; School of Health and Human Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding