The acquisition of Creole languages : how children surpass their input / / Dany Adone, University of Cologne [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790366103321
• Autore: Adone Dany
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-139-50779-6; 1-107-22391-1; 1-280-77386-3; 9786613684639; 1-139-51733-3; 1-139-51476-8; 1-139-04336-6; 1-139-51383-4; 1-139-51641-8; 1-139-51826-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Classificazione: LAN009000
• Disciplina: 417/.22019
• Soggetti: Creole dialects; Language acquisition; Children - Language
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: 1. Creole languages; 2. Issues in first language acquisition; 3. Complex Creole syntax; 4. Child Creole data; 5. Pronouns and reflexives; 6. Double-object constructions; 7. Passive constructions; 8. Serial verb constructions; 9. Acquisition without a conventional language model; Appendix A. Experimental materials on pronouns and reflexives; Appendix B. Experimental materials on double-object constructions; Appendix C. Experimental materials on passive constructions; Appendix D. Experimental materials on serial verb constructions.
• Sommario/riassunto: How do children acquire a Creole as their first language? This relatively underexplored question is the starting point for this first book of its ; kind; it also asks how first language acquisition of a Creole differs from that of a non-Creole language. Dany Adone reveals that in the absence of a conventional language model, Creole children acquire language and go beyond the input they receive. This study discusses the role of input, a hotly debated issue in the field of first language acquisition, and provides support for the nativist approach in the debate between nativism and input-based models. The Acquisition of Creole Languages will be essential reading for those in the fields of First Language Acquisition and Creole Studies. Adone takes an interdisciplinary approach, and uses insights from the acquisition of language in the visual modality, making this of great interest to those in the field of Sign Linguistics.