Publications

Publication details [#4346]

Harkness, Sara. 1977. Aspects of environment and first language acquisition in rural Africa. In Snow, Catherine E. and Charles A. Ferguson, eds. Talking to children: Language input and acquisition. Cambridge University Press. pp. 309–316.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult-child conversation | context of L1-acquisition | rural community | socialization

Annotation

A study of the roles of both mothers and children in the first language socialization of rural African children (with reference to a Kipsigis community in the western highlands of Kenya).