Learning Indigenous languages : child language acquisition in Mesoamerica / edited by Barbara Pfeiler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pfeiler, Barbara Blaha, 1952-

Series:

Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]

Studies on language acquisition, 1861-4248 ; 33

Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] ; 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition.

Indians of Central America--Languages.

Indians of Central America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, Tzotzil, and Yukatek). Three topics are theoretically and methodologically discussed and empirically demonstrated: with respect to ergativity, the ergative-absolutive cross-referencing pattern on the morphological level, noun-verb distinction and the acquisition of body-part locatives in the early lexicon, and the role of semantic property

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The view from Mesoamerica / Pfeiler, Barbara

Roots or Edges? Explaining variation in children's early verb forms across five Mayan languages / Pye, Clifton / Pfeiler, Barbara / de León, Lourdes / Brown, Penelope / Mateo, Pedro

Explaining Ergativity / Pye, Clifton

Early acquisition of the Split Intransitive System in Yukatek / Carreón, Carlos Carrillo

A preliminary view at Ch'ol (Mayan) early lexicon: The role of language and cultural context / de León, Lourdes

Acquisition of referential and relational words in Huichol: from 16 to 24 months of age / López, Paula Gómez

Culture-specific influences on semantic development: Learning the Tzeltal 'benefactive' construction / Brown, Penelope

Bcuaa quiang - I stepped HEAD it! The acquisition of Zapotec bodypart locatives / de López, Kristine Jensen

"Lo oye, lo repite y lo piensa." The contribution of prompting to the socialization and language acquisition in Yukatek Maya toddlers / Pfeiler, Barbara

List of contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110923148

3110923149

OCLC:

811402288