Publications

Publication details [#46591]

Swift, Mary. 2004. Time in Child Inuktitut. A Developmental Study of an Eskimo-Aleut Language. (Studies on Language Acquisition 24). De Gruyter. XII+315 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

caregiver-child conversation | child language | group interaction | L1-acquisition | time deixis, L1-acquisition of

Language as a subject

Inuktitut

Annotation

This account of Inuktitut children's development of time reference in their native language, constitutes an unparalelled contribution to research on the acquisition of tense and aspect.