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Talking to Children in Tsotsil Mayan: Interactional Formats in Child-Directed Communication across Multigenerational Caregivers
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Lourdes de León; Rosnátaly Avelino Sierra – First Language, 2024
Research on the acquisition of Mayan languages has shown child-directed communication (CDC) to be low in frequency. Nevertheless, long-term linguistic-anthropological research with the Tsotsil Mayan in Southern Mexico has documented episodes in family life when children engage in interactional routines or interactional formats (IFs) with their…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Caregiver Child Relationship, Classification, Family Relationship
Acquiring Polish Noun Inflection: Two Children's Productivity and Error Patterns in Relation to Parental Input
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Price-Williams, David; Davies, Matt – First Language, 2023
Complex systems of inflectional morphology provide a useful testing ground for input-based language acquisition theories. Two analyses were performed on a high-density (12%) naturalistic sample of two Polish-English children's (2;0 and 3;11) and their parents' use of Polish noun inflection: first, each child's use of inflectional affixes and their…
Descriptors: Polish, Nouns, Language Acquisition, Speech Communication