| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 248 pages) |
| Series |
Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 13 |
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Language acquisition & language disorders.
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| Contents |
ASPECTS OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURE ACQUISITION IN INUKTITUT; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1995 Book Award; Tables; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Background and Overview; Chapter 2. Methodology; Chapter 3. Acquisition of passives; Chapter 4. Acquisition of causatives; Chapter 5. Acquisition of noun incorporation; Chapter 6. Conclusion; References; Appendix A. Map indicating location of Quaqtaq; Appendix B. List of (meta)transcription notations; Appendix C. List of codes for verbal utterances; Appendix D. Sample of fully coded transcript |
| Summary |
This book discusses the first language acquisition of three morphosyntactic mechanisms of transitivity alternation in arctic Quebec Inuktitut. Data derive from naturalistic longitudinal spontaneous speech samples collected over a nine-month period from four Inuit children. Both basic and advanced forms of passive structures are shown to be used productively by Inuktitut-speaking children at an early age relative to English-speaking children, but consistent in age with speakers of non-Indo-European languages reported on in the literature; potential explanations of this difference include freque |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-229) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Inuktituk dialect -- Acquisition
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Inuktituk dialect -- Syntax
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789027299154 |
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9027299153 |
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