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Download full textAllen, Shanley; Crago, Martha – 1989
An investigation of the first language acquisition of productive nouns in Inuktitut (Inupiaq) is presented. This study begins with descriptions of noun incorporation, relevant aspects of the structure of Inuktitut, and working criteria of productivity. Acquisition data from Inuktitut and corroborating data from Greenlandic are outlined and…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
