The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition
Volume 3
- Edited by Dan Isaac Slobin
- Price: $135.00
- Binding: Hardback
- Pages: 672
- Published by: Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates)
- Publication Date: 1st October 1992
- ISBN: 978-0-8058-0105-7
About the Book
Extending the tradition of this series, which has become a standard reference work in language acquisition, this volume contains chapters on seven more languages, including a section on ergative languages. Languages in this volume include:
* Georgian
* Greenlandic
* K'iche Mayan
*Warlpiri
* Mandarin
* Scandinavian
* Sesotho
Table of Contents
Contents: D.I. Slobin, Introduction.
Part I:Ergative Languages. R.D. Van Valin, Jr., An Overview of Ergative Phenomena and Their Implications for Language Acquisition.
N. Imedadze, K. Tuite, The Acquisition of Georgian.
M. Fortescue, L.L. Olsen, The Acquisition of West Greenlandic.
C. Pye, The Acquisition of K'iche Maya.
E.L. Bavin, The Acquisition of Warlpiri.
Part II:Non-Ergative Languages. M.S. Erbaugh, The Acquisition of Mandarin.
K. Plunkett, S. Stromqvist, The Acquisition of Scandinavian Languages.
K. Demuth, The Acquisition of Sesotho.
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