The acquisition of Swahili / / Kamil Ud Deen

• Autore: Ud Deen Kamil
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 496/.3928
• Soggetto topico: Swahili language - Acquisition; Swahili language - Dialects - Kenya - Nairobi; Swahili language - Verb; Swahili language - Affixes; Children - Language
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-234) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Acquisition of Swahili -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. SETTING THE SCENE -- 1.0. Introduction -- 1.1. The Study -- 1.2. Early Morphosyntactic Convergence -- 1.3. Acquisition of Bantu Languages -- 1.4. Other Morphologically Rich Languages -- 1.5. Organization -- 2. THE SWAHILI LANGUAGE -- Part I: Description -- 2.1. Basic Facts -- 2.2. General Phonological Facts -- 2.3. Noun Classes -- 2.4. The Verbal Complex -- Part II. Theoretical Analysis of Swahili -- 2.5. The Derivation of a Tensed Clause -- 2.6. Null Subjects - null pro -- 2.7. Rate and Context of Null Subjects -- 2.8. Subject Agreement Omission -- 2.9. [-SA] Clauses -- 2.10. Null Subjects in [-SA] Clauses -- 2.11. Rizzi's Null Constant -- 2.12. Null Constants in Swahili -- 2.13. Conclusion -- 3. THEORIES OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION -- 3.1 Theories of Omission in Child Language -- 3.2 Predictions of the Theories of Omission for Swahili -- 3.3 Theories of Null Subjects in Child Language -- 3.4 Predictions of Null Subject Theories for Swahili -- 4. RESULTS AND EVALUATING THEORIES -- 4.0. Introduction and the Children -- 4.1 Results - Clause Types in Child Swahili -- 4.2 Results - Null Subjects in Child Swahili -- 4.3 Revisiting Theories of Omission -- 4.4 Revisiting Theories of Null Subjects -- 4.5 Remaining questions -- 4.6 Conclusion -- APPENDIX 1. METHODOLOGY AND RELATED ISSUES. -- 1.1 Children -- 1.2 Data Collection -- 1.3 Linguistic Measures -- APPENDIX 2. STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF ADULT SWAHILI -- APPENDIX 3. THE STAGING PROCESS -- APPENDIX 4. INDIVIDUAL CHILD DATA -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- INDEX OF NAMES -- The series Language Acquisition and Language Disorders.
• Sommario/riassunto: This monograph is the first study of the acquisition of Swahili as a first language. It focuses on the acquisition of inflectional affixes, with a particular emphasis on subject agreement and tense. Other inflectional affixes are also investigated, including object agreement and mood. The study surveys the adult dialect in question, Nairobi Swahili, discussing social, phonological, morphological and syntactic properties. Data, analyses and copious examples are presented of the naturalistic speech of four Swahili speaking children. The data are tested against six influential theories of child language, and the results show that processing and metrical theories of telegraphic speech fail to account for the observed patterns, while grammatical theories of child language fair significantly better. The data and analyses presented in this book are indispensable for linguists and psychologists interested in the acquisition of inflectional material and other cross-linguistic properties of child language.
• Titolo autorizzato: The acquisition of Swahili
• ISBN: 1-282-15626-8; 9786612156267; 90-272-9397-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827521303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Language acquisition & language disorders ; ; v. 40.