The use of passive constructions by Swedish children has never been systematically investigated before. The main purpose of this study is to investigate Swedish-speaking children’s use of passive forms in narratives elicited using the Multilingual AssessmentInstrument for Narratives (MAIN). The participants were divided into three main categories based on age and linguistic background: 72 monolingual Swedish-speaking children aged between 4-6 years, 20 monolingual Swedish-speaking adults, and 100 multilingual Swedish-Turkish-speaking children aged between 4-7 years who are growing up in Sweden. The participants were recruited through the project BiLI-TAS VR2013-1309 ”Språkstörning eller typisk språkutveckling?” at Uppsala university. The observed passive constructions were categorized and analyzed in quantity and quality in relation to age and linguistic background. The results showed a difference in quantity of passive constructions between children and adults, as well as between monolingual and multilingual peers. The total occurrence for passives was 16 among monolingual children, 11 among monolingual adults, and 10 among multilingual children. In general, younger children and multilingual participants produced fewer passives than adults and older monolingual children, although 6- and 7-year old multilingual children produced more passives than the 4- and 5-year old monolingual children. A few multilingual children were also produced passive constructions in active contexts, which did not occur among the monolingual participants. The large number of deponent verbs (which are morphologically but not functionally equivalent to passives) shows that children are familiar with the structure of the morphologic passive. The choice between morphologic or periphrastic passive seems to be influenced by the context. More research needs to be done to increase our knowledge how the passive construction develops in Swedish.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-509710 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Wärn-Ekarna, Johanna |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för folkhälso- och vårdvetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | Masterarbete i logopedi ; 5 |
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