Learning Indigenous languages [[electronic resource] ] : child language acquisition in Mesoamerica / / edited by Barbara Pfeiler

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Disciplina: 401/.93
• Soggetto topico: Language acquisition; Indians of Central America - Languages
• Soggetto non controllato: Indigenous languages, Mesoamerica, Language Acquisition
• Altri autori: PfeilerBarbara Blaha <1952->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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 property
• Titolo autorizzato: Learning Indigenous languages
• ISBN: 3-11-092314-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808299003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]