Dissertation: Morphosyntactic Interactions in the First Language Acquisition of Inuktitut

论文：因纽特语第一语言习得中的形态句法交互

• 批准号: 9529166
• 负责人: Barbara Lust
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-03-01 至 1997-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9529166&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Morphosyntactic; Interactions; First; Language

This dissertation project will provide experimental and naturalistic studies of the first language acquisition of children between the ages of three and six years of age acquiring Inuktitut (a language of the Eskimo-Aleut family) as their first language in Igloolik, N.W.T., Canada. This research will be particularly significant because (i) it will contribute to providing foundational knowledge on the acquisition of languages with highly complex morphology; (ii) it will examine the concurrent acquisition of syntax and morphology, and the ways in which the child's developing knowledge of one might contribute to knowledge of the other; (iii) it will investigate aspects of the human cognitive competence for language in the context of a language (and a language family) which has been little studied to date; and (iv) it will provide important descriptive information on a North American language in an area where there is current concern about severe language loss.

本论文将对加拿大西北部伊格卢利克三至六岁儿童以爱斯基摩-阿留申语言(爱斯基摩-阿留申语系的一种语言)为第一语言的第一语言习得进行实验和自然主义研究。这项研究将具有特别重要的意义，因为(I)它将有助于提供高度复杂的词法语言习得的基础知识；(Ii)它将考察同时获得句法和词法的情况，以及儿童对一种语言的发展知识可能如何有助于另一种语言的知识；(Iii)它将调查人类在迄今很少研究的语言(和语言家族)背景下对语言的认知能力的各个方面；以及(Iv)它将提供关于北美语言的重要描述性信息，该领域目前存在严重的语言丧失问题。