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Learning indigenous languages : child language acquisition in Mesoamerica /

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, Tzotz...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pfeiler, Barbara Blaha, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2007.
Colección:Studies on language acquisition ; 33.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The view from Mesoamerica / Barbara Pfeiler
  • Crosslinguistic study
  • Roots or Edges? Explaining variation in children's early verb forms across five Mayan languages / Clifton Pye, Barbara Pfeiler, Lourdes de Leon, Penelope Brown and Pedro Mateo
  • Acquisition of ergative Mayan languages
  • Explaining Ergativity / Clifton Pye
  • Early acquisition of the Split Intransitive System in Yukatek / Carlos Carrillo Carreon
  • Acquisition of the early lexicon
  • A preliminary view at Ch'ol (Mayan) early lexicon: The role of language and cultural context / Lourdes de Leon
  • Acquisition of referential and relational words in Huichol: from 16 to 24 months of age / Paula Gomez Lopez
  • Semantic development.