The acquisition of Creole languages : how children surpass their input / Dany Adone, University of Cologne.
By: Adone, Dany [Author]
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BookPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012Description: xviii, 225 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780521199650.Subject(s): Creole dialects | Language acquisition | Children -- Language | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / GeneralDDC classification: 417.22019 Other classification: LAN009000 Online resources: Cover image | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents only | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 414 WAR-P Phonological variables and sociolinguistics salience: | 415 HOW-D Discourse | 415.7 MYN-A Adpositions : | 417.22019 ADO-A The acquisition of Creole languages : | 418.00721 LOE-A An A-Z of applied linguistics research methods / | 418.02 GUP-L Literary translation | 419 DEV-P People's linguistic survey of india : |
"How do children acquire a Creole as their first language? This relatively underexplored question is the starting point for this first book of its kind; it also asks how first language acquisition of a Creole differs from that of a non-Creole language. Dany Adone reveals that in the absence of a conventional language model, Creole children acquire language and go beyond the input they receive. This study discusses the role of input, a hotly debated issue in the field of first language acquisition, and provides support for the nativist approach in the debate between nativism and input-based models. The Acquisition of Creole Languages will be essential reading for those in the fields of First Language Acquisition and Creole Studies. Adone takes an interdisciplinary approach, and uses insights from the acquisition of language in the visual modality, making this of great interest to those in the field of Sign Linguistics"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-219) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1. Creole languages; 2. Issues in first language acquisition; 3. Complex Creole syntax; 4. Child Creole data; 5. Pronouns and reflexives; 6. Double-object constructions; 7. Passive constructions; 8. Serial verb constructions; 9. Acquisition without a conventional language model; Appendix A. Experimental materials on pronouns and reflexives; Appendix B. Experimental materials on double-object constructions; Appendix C. Experimental materials on passive constructions; Appendix D. Experimental materials on serial verb constructions.
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