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The acquisition of Swahili /
This monograph is the first study of the acquisition of Swahili as a first language. It focuses on the acquisition of inflectional affixes, with a particular emphasis on subject agreement and tense. Other inflectional affixes are also investigated, including object agreement and mood. The study surv...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2005]
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| Colección: | Language acquisition & language disorders ;
v. 40. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This monograph is the first study of the acquisition of Swahili as a first language. It focuses on the acquisition of inflectional affixes, with a particular emphasis on subject agreement and tense. Other inflectional affixes are also investigated, including object agreement and mood. The study surveys the adult dialect in question, Nairobi Swahili, discussing social, phonological, morphological and syntactic properties. Data, analyses and copious examples are presented of the naturalistic speech of four Swahili speaking children. The data are tested against six influential theories of child l. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 241 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-234) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027293978 902729397X 1282156268 9781282156265 9786612156267 6612156260 |
| ISSN: | 0925-0123 ; |