03713nam 2200637 a 450 991080829900332120240516174243.03-11-092314-910.1515/9783110923148(CKB)3360000000338434(EBL)936579(OCoLC)811402288(SSID)ssj0000713979(PQKBManifestationID)11444888(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000713979(PQKBWorkID)10663749(PQKB)10753283(MiAaPQ)EBC936579(DE-B1597)57027(OCoLC)979970444(DE-B1597)9783110923148(Au-PeEL)EBL936579(CaPaEBR)ebr10585326(EXLCZ)99336000000033843420070612d2007 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrLearning Indigenous languages child language acquisition in Mesoamerica /edited by Barbara Pfeiler1st ed.Berlin ;New York Mouton de Gruyterc20071 online resource (220 p.)Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] ;33Studies on language acquisition,1861-4248 ;33Description based upon print version of record.3-11-019559-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexThis 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 propertyStudies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]Language acquisitionIndians of Central AmericaLanguagesIndigenous languages, Mesoamerica, Language Acquisition.Language acquisition.Indians of Central AmericaLanguages.401/.93Pfeiler Barbara Blaha1952-1609096MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808299003321Learning Indigenous languages3936170UNINA