TY - BOOK ID - 80875976 TI - Time in child Inuktitut PY - 2004 SN - 9783110197419 3110197413 9783110181203 3110181207 3110181207 1283396483 9781283396486 9786613396488 6613396486 PB - Berlin New York M. de Gruyter DB - UniCat KW - Inuktitut language KW - Inuktitut dialect KW - Inuttitut language KW - Inuttut dialect KW - Inuit language KW - Temporal constructions. KW - Acquisition. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80875976 AB - This book presents a study of the development of time reference in young children acquiring Inuktitut as a first language. The first such study of an Eskimo-Aleut language, it makes a unique contribution to the tense-aspect acquisition literature with an account of children's development of a temporal system that is fundamentally different from those found in languages previously studied. Drawing on spontaneous speech data collected longitudinally from eight Inuit children between 2 and 3-and-a-half years old, this study analyzes the temporal structures, their meanings and context of use in the children's communicative interactions with siblings, peers and caretakers during the early stages of language development. ER -