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Publication details [#46568]

Pfeiler, Barbara, ed. 2007. Learning Indigenous Languages: Child Language Acquisition in Mesoamerica. (Studies on Language Acquisition 33). De Gruyter. VI+209 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
language acquisition | language and culture | semantics1 | socialization
Language as a subject
Ch'ol | Huichol | K'anjob'al | K'iche' | Tzeltal | Tzotzil | Yukatek | Zapotec

Annotation

This book deals with child language acquisition of single Mesoamerican indigenous languages, (Huichol, Zapotec, and the Mayan languages Ch'ol, Tzeltal, K'iche', and Yukatek), and provides a crosslinguistic study of five Mayan languages (K'anjob'al, K'iche', Tzeltal, Tzotzil, and Yukatek).