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Learning Indigenous Languages: Child Language Acquisition in Mesoamerica / ed. by Barbara Pfeiler.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] ; 33Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (209 p.) : Num. figs. and illContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110195590
  • 9783110923148
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401.93
LOC classification:
  • P118 .L38986 2007
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
i-iv -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The view from Mesoamerica -- Roots or Edges? Explaining variation in children’s early verb forms across five Mayan languages -- Explaining Ergativity -- Early acquisition of the Split Intransitive System in Yukatek -- A preliminary view at Ch’ol (Mayan) early lexicon: The role of language and cultural context -- Acquisition of referential and relational words in Huichol: from 16 to 24 months of age -- Culture-specific influences on semantic development: Learning the Tzeltal ‘benefactive’ construction -- Bcuaa quiang – I stepped HEAD it! The acquisition of Zapotec bodypart locatives -- “Lo oye, lo repite y lo piensa.” The contribution of prompting to the socialization and language acquisition in Yukatek Maya toddlers -- List of contributors -- Index
Summary: This book includes six studies on the acquisition of single Mesoamerican indigenous languages, (Huichol, Zapotec, and the Mayan languages Ch'ol, Tzeltal, K'iche', and Yukatek); and a crosslinguistic study of five Mayan languages (K'anjob'al, K'iche', Tzeltal, Tzotzil, and Yukatek). Three topics are theoretically and methodologically discussed and empirically demonstrated: with respect to ergativity, the ergative-absolutive cross-referencing pattern on the morphological level, noun-verb distinction and the acquisition of body-part locatives in the early lexicon, and the role of semantic properties and cultural context in language acquisition and socialization. This book makes important claims regarding the methodology of cross-linguistic studies as well as the results of these studies and the comparative method used in the book (structural and discursive factors in language acquisition, cross-linguistic relationships and variation).
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i-iv -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The view from Mesoamerica -- Roots or Edges? Explaining variation in children’s early verb forms across five Mayan languages -- Explaining Ergativity -- Early acquisition of the Split Intransitive System in Yukatek -- A preliminary view at Ch’ol (Mayan) early lexicon: The role of language and cultural context -- Acquisition of referential and relational words in Huichol: from 16 to 24 months of age -- Culture-specific influences on semantic development: Learning the Tzeltal ‘benefactive’ construction -- Bcuaa quiang – I stepped HEAD it! The acquisition of Zapotec bodypart locatives -- “Lo oye, lo repite y lo piensa.” The contribution of prompting to the socialization and language acquisition in Yukatek Maya toddlers -- List of contributors -- Index

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This book includes six studies on the acquisition of single Mesoamerican indigenous languages, (Huichol, Zapotec, and the Mayan languages Ch'ol, Tzeltal, K'iche', and Yukatek); and a crosslinguistic study of five Mayan languages (K'anjob'al, K'iche', Tzeltal, Tzotzil, and Yukatek). Three topics are theoretically and methodologically discussed and empirically demonstrated: with respect to ergativity, the ergative-absolutive cross-referencing pattern on the morphological level, noun-verb distinction and the acquisition of body-part locatives in the early lexicon, and the role of semantic properties and cultural context in language acquisition and socialization. This book makes important claims regarding the methodology of cross-linguistic studies as well as the results of these studies and the comparative method used in the book (structural and discursive factors in language acquisition, cross-linguistic relationships and variation).

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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