Three-year-old children acquiring South African English in Cape Town

Michelle Pascoe; Jane Le Roux; Olebeng Mahura; Emily Danvers; Aimée De Jager; Natania Esterhuizen; Chané Naidoo; Juliette Reynders; Savannah Senior; Amy van der Merwe

Three-year-old children acquiring South African English in Cape Town

Michelle Pascoe, Jane Le Roux, Olebeng Mahura, Emily Danvers, Aimée De Jager, Natania Esterhuizen, Chané Naidoo, Juliette Reynders, Savannah Senior, Amy van der Merwe

University of Cape Town

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Abstract

Background. South Africa has eleven official languages, yet speech acquisition in this context of rich linguistic diversity has not been well-researched. Studies have detailed development of is iXhosa phonology, but little work has focused on the typical acquisition of multiple languages in this context, and speech development in young children acquiring South African English has yet to be detailed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2015
Editors	Elena Babatsouli, David Ingram
Publisher	Institute of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech
Pages	277-287
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9786188235106
Publication status	Published - Dec 2015
Event	International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2015 - Great Arsenali Conference Center, Chania, Greece Duration: 07 Sept 2015 → 10 Sept 2015 http://ismbs.eu/ismbs-2015/ https://repository.uantwerpen.be/docman/irua/b078dc/130727.pdf#page=285 (Proceedings)

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Conference	International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2015
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Chania
Period	07/09/15 → 10/09/15
Internet address	http://ismbs.eu/ismbs-2015/ https://repository.uantwerpen.be/docman/irua/b078dc/130727.pdf#page=285 (Proceedings)

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Pascoe, M., Le Roux, J., Mahura, O., Danvers, E., De Jager, A., Esterhuizen, N., Naidoo, C., Reynders, J., Senior, S., & van der Merwe, A. (2015). Three-year-old children acquiring South African English in Cape Town. In E. Babatsouli, & D. Ingram (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2015 (pp. 277-287). Institute of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech.

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Three-year-old children acquiring South African English in Cape Town. / Pascoe, Michelle; Le Roux, Jane; Mahura, Olebeng et al.
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2015. ed. / Elena Babatsouli; David Ingram. Institute of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, 2015. p. 277-287.

Research output: Book chapter/Published conference paper › Conference paper › peer-review

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Three-year-old children acquiring South African English in Cape Town

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