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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Western CEDAR
2007
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| Online Access: | https://cedar.wwu.edu/mcl_facpubs/48 https://cedar.wwu.edu/context/mcl_facpubs/article/1046/viewcontent/vajda_time_in_child.pdf |
| 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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