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标题：Slovak Language of Roma Children: Mother Tongue or Second Language
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作者：Hristo Kyuchukov ; Hristo Kyuchukov
期刊名称：Journal of Language and Education
电子版ISSN：2411-7390
出版年度：2015
卷号：1
期号：3
页码：6-11
DOI：10.17323/2411-7390-2015-1-3-6-11
语种：English
出版社：National Research University Higher School of Economics
摘要：This paper presents a study conducted with 40 Roma children from Slovakia, aged between 4-8 years, who are speakers of an ethnolect learned from their parents, but which in Slovak society is not considered to be a “good Slovak language”. Diagnostic tests in the official Slovak language were administered to the children in order to determine how well they know the complex grammatical categories of official Slovak: wh-questions, wh-complements and passive verbs. One hypothesis raised by the study is that the Roma children follow the normal linguistic development path of other children and, by the age of 5, already know the deep structure of complex sentences in Slovak. The results show that although the Roma children grow up with a particular variety of the Slovak language that is an ethnolect, they are able to comprehend and produce deep linguistic structures of Slovak, which serves for them as a mother tongue.
关键词：mother tongue;second language;Roma children;ethnolect;Slovak language