Review of: Time in Child Inuktitut: A Developmental Study of an Eskimo-Aleut Language

Most studies of child language acquisition up till now have focused on Indo-European or the major languages of East Asia. An investigation of how children master the typologically very different structure of a language such as Inuktitut is therefore of considerable theoretical interest. This book de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vajda, Edward J.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Western CEDAR 2007
Subjects:
Child language acquisition
Inuktitut
Developmental Study
Eskimo-Aleut Language
Modern Languages
Arctic
Hudson
Hudson Strait
aleut
eskimo*
Eskimo–Aleut
inuit
inuktitut
Online Access:https://cedar.wwu.edu/mcl_facpubs/48
https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1046&context=mcl_facpubs
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Summary:Most studies of child language acquisition up till now have focused on Indo-European or the major languages of East Asia. An investigation of how children master the typologically very different structure of a language such as Inuktitut is therefore of considerable theoretical interest. This book describes how children up to the age of three and a half acquire the mechanisms of time reference in the Tarramiut (Hudson Strait) subdialect of Inuktitut, a language spoken by about fifteen hundred Inuit in arctic Quebec.

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