G. Tucker Childs
G. Tucker Childs
List of John Benjamins publications for which G. Tucker Childs plays a role.
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Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Electronic/Multimedia Products | Other African languages | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
The purpose of the pilot research described here was twofold. The first was to develop a measure for multilingualism, how to characterize what has come to be known in the literature as a linguistic repertoire in a rapid and economical manner. A linguistic repertoire is not a language but the… read more | Chapter
This paper examines the contradictory demands of using language expressively and still qualifying as language, proposing a functional explanation for the form of words in a linguistic word category. Being expressive requires expending more energy, emitting a more robust signal to convey additional… read more | Article
Typically not the focus of linguistic analysis, the expressive function nonetheless represents a core linguistic behavior. Throughout Africa, ideo-phones robustly manifest that function. When adult speakers learn and begin to use a second language, particularly in contact situations with limited L2… read more | Article