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Autore |
Swift Mary D. <1965-> |
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Titolo |
Time in child Inuktitut : a developmental study of an Eskimo-Aleut language / / by Mary D. Swift |
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Berlin ; ; New York, : M. de Gruyter, c2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-39648-3 |
9786613396488 |
3-11-019741-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (328 pages) |
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Collana |
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Studies on language acquisition ; ; 24 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Inuktitut dialect - Temporal constructions |
Inuktitut dialect - Acquisition |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-312) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Inuktitut -- Chapter 3. Time reference in Inuktitut -- Chapter 4. The development of time reference in child language: A review of the literature -- Chapter 5. Methodology -- Chapter 6. Early verb development in Inuktitut -- Chapter 7. Zero-marked verbs in early Inuktitut -- Chapter 8. Aspectual suffixes in early Inuktitut -- Chapter 9. Future temporal remoteness in early Inuktitut -- Chapter 10. Past temporal remoteness in early Inuktitut -- Chapter 11. Temporal adverbials and temporal clause coordination in early Inuktitut -- Chapter 12. Summary and conclusions -- Back matter |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book presents a study of the development of time reference in young children acquiring Inuktitut as a first language. The first such study of an Eskimo-Aleut language, it makes a unique contribution to the tense-aspect acquisition literature with an account of children's development of a temporal system that is fundamentally different from those found in languages previously studied. Drawing on spontaneous speech data collected longitudinally from eight Inuit children between 2 and 3-and-a-half years old, this study analyzes the temporal structures, their meanings and context of use in the children's communicative interactions with siblings, peers and caretakers during |
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