Connecting language acquisition to language documentation and beyond: The CCLAS project and Northern East Cree

We discuss how first language acquisition research projects—such as the Chisasibi Child Language Acquisition Study, which focuses on Northern East Cree in Quebec, Canada (www.mun.ca/cclas)—can enrich language documentation, inform linguistic description, and generate insights with potential applicat...

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Other Authors: Henke, Ryan, Brittain, Julie
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Published: 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10125/44879
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Summary:We discuss how first language acquisition research projects—such as the Chisasibi Child Language Acquisition Study, which focuses on Northern East Cree in Quebec, Canada (www.mun.ca/cclas)—can enrich language documentation, inform linguistic description, and generate insights with potential applications for teaching indigenous languages to new speakers. (session 4.4.4)