LEADER 04282nam 22006255 450 001 9910968988403321 005 20191022022751.0 010 $a9780226481319 010 $a022648131X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226481319 035 $a(CKB)4100000001038354 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4914486 035 $a(DE-B1597)524502 035 $a(OCoLC)1024192426 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226481319 035 $a(Perlego)1840639 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001038354 100 $a20191022d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Comparative Method of Language Acquisition Research /$fClifton Pye 210 1$aChicago : $cUniversity of Chicago Press, $d[2018] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (319 pages) $cillustrations 311 08$a9780226539614 311 08$a022653961X 311 08$a9780226481289 311 08$a022648128X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tChapter One. Comparing Languages -- $tChapter Two. A History of Crosslinguistic Research on Language Acquisition -- $tChapter Three. The Comparative Method of Language Acquisition Research -- $tChapter Four. The Structure of Mayan Languages -- $tChapter Five. The Acquisition of the Mayan Lexicon -- $tChapter Six. The Acquisition of the Mayan Intransitive Verb Complex -- $tChapter Seven. The Acquisition of the Mayan Transitive Verb Complex -- $tChapter Eight. The Acquisition of Person Marking in the Mayan Verb Complex -- $tChapter Nine. The Acquisition of Mayan Argument Structures -- $tChapter Ten. Argument Realization in Mayan Languages -- $tChapter Eleven. Conclusion -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aThe Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique. With their distinctive relational nouns, positionals, and complex grammatical voices, they are quite alien to English and have never been shown to be genetically related to other New World tongues. These qualities, Clifton Pye shows, afford a particular opportunity for linguistic insight. Both an overview of lessons Pye has gleaned from more than thirty years of studying how children learn Mayan languages as well as a strong case for a novel method of researching crosslinguistic language acquisition more broadly, this book demonstrates the value of a close, granular analysis of a small language lineage for untangling the complexities of first language acquisition. Pye here applies the comparative method to three Mayan languages-K'iche', Mam, and Ch'ol-showing how differences in the use of verbs are connected to differences in the subject markers and pronouns used by children and adults. His holistic approach allows him to observe how small differences between the languages lead to significant differences in the structure of the children's lexicon and grammar, and to learn why that is so. More than this, he expects that such careful scrutiny of related languages' variable solutions to specific problems will yield new insights into how children acquire complex grammars. Studying such an array of related languages, he argues, is a necessary condition for understanding how any particular language is used; studying languages in isolation, comparing them only to one's native tongue, is merely collecting linguistic curiosities. 606 $aLanguage acquisition 606 $aMayan languages$xAcquisition 606 $aChol language$xAcquisition 606 $aMam language$xAcquisition 606 $aQuiche? language$xAcquisition 606 $aPsycholinguistics$xComparative method 615 0$aLanguage acquisition. 615 0$aMayan languages$xAcquisition. 615 0$aChol language$xAcquisition. 615 0$aMam language$xAcquisition. 615 0$aQuiche? language$xAcquisition. 615 0$aPsycholinguistics$xComparative method. 676 $a401.93 686 $aER 765$2rvk 700 $aPye$b Clifton, $01810345 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910968988403321 996 $aThe Comparative Method of Language Acquisition Research$94361659 997 $aUNINA