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Volume 1 No.1

October 1995

The Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism

多言語多文化研究

A Japanese-English Bilingual Child's System of Answering Negative Questions

Nakagawa Hitomi

Kobe, Japan

This paper examines one semantic aspect of a Japanese-English bilingual child's linguistic ability: the way she responds to negative questions in her two languages, which have very different systems for formulating answers in such cases. After explaining the differences in the systems the two languages have for responding to negative questions, the paper analyzes the way the child responded to negative questions in English and Japanese during conversation. While the child was able to maintain grammaticality in 97.6% of her responses, some interlingual and intralingual contrasts were found in the form of the response she used for differing forms of questions, suggesting the possibility of interlingual transfer.