LINGUIST List 15.2339

Thu Aug 19 2004

Books: Semantics/Language Acquisition: Swift

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  • julia.ulrich, Time in Child Inuktitut: Swift

    Message 1: Time in Child Inuktitut: Swift

     Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:20:20 -0400 (EDT)
    From: julia.ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com>
    Subject: Time in Child Inuktitut: Swift




    Title: Time in Child Inuktitut Subtitle: A Developmental Study of an Eskimo-Aleut Language Series Title: Studies on Language Acquisition 24

    Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter http://www.mouton-publishers.com

    Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110181207-1&l=E Author: Mary Swift, University of Rochester, NY

    Hardback: ISBN: 3110181207, Pages: xii, 307, Price: EURO 98.00

    Abstract:

    This book presents a study of the development of time reference in young children acquiring Inuktitut as a first language. The first such study of an Eskimo-Aleut language, its account of children's development of time reference in a system that is fundamentally different from those found in languages previously studied makes a unique contribution to the literature on the ac-quisition of tense and aspect. Drawing on longitudinal spontaneous speech data from eight Inuit children between 2 and 3-and-a-half years old, this study analyzes the temporal structures, their meanings and context of use in children's communicative interactions with siblings, peers and caretakers during the early stages of language development.

    The comprehensive study of previously unexplored temporal phenomena and its unprecedented findings makes this book an important resource for researchers, teachers and students of child language development, especially the development of time reference. In addition, the documentation of the Inuktitut temporal sys-tem, especially as used in conversational speech, will be of interest to researchers of time reference.

    Lingfield(s): Applied Linguistics Language Acquisition Psycholinguistics Semantics Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)

    See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=11253.







































































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