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Kernan, Keith T. – 1969
The purpose of this study was to gather information on the acquisition of non-Indo-European languages. The field work was conducted in the village of Faleasao on the island of Ta'u in the Manu'a group of American Samoa from June, 1968 to June, 1969. The data collected consists primarily of tape recordings of naturally occurring and elicited speech…
Descriptors: Child Language, Doctoral Dissertations, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns