Publications

Publication details [#57633]

Wigglesworth, Gillian and Felicity Meakins. 2013. How much input is enough? Correlating comprehension and child language input in an endangered language. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 34 (2) : 171–188.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

aboriginal child | caregiver-child conversation | language input | language revival | language, comprehension of

Language as a subject

English, Australian | Gurindji | Languages, Australian aboriginal

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study explores whether Aboriginal Australian children receive enough Aboriginal language input which they comprehend sufficiently (related to age and frequency of use), in order to later become active speakers of their (endangered) traditional languages (as for example Gurindji).