TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Penelope
AU  - Carreón,Carlos Carrillo
AU  - López,Paula Gómez
AU  - Mateo,Pedro
AU  - Pfeiler,Barbara
AU  - Pye,Clifton
AU  - de León,Lourdes
AU  - de López,Kristine Jensen
TI  - Learning Indigenous Languages: Child Language Acquisition in Mesoamerica
T2  - Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] ,
SN  - 9783110195590
AV  - P118 .L38986 2007
U1  - 401.93 
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton, 
KW  - Indians of Central America
KW  - Languages
KW  - Language acquisition
KW  - Mesoamerika
KW  - Spracherwerb
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Indigenous languages, Mesoamerica, Language Acquisition
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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)
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110923148
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110923148
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110923148/original
ER  -