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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.

Inuktitut language --- Inuktitut dialect --- Inuttitut language --- Inuttut dialect --- Inuit language --- Temporal constructions. --- Acquisition.

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This book discusses the first language acquisition of three morphosyntactic mechanisms of transitivity alternation in arctic Quebec Inuktitut. Data derive from naturalistic longitudinal spontaneous speech samples collected over a nine-month period from four Inuit children. Both basic and advanced forms of passive structures are shown to be used productively by Inuktitut-speaking children at an early age relative to English-speaking children, but consistent in age with speakers of non-Indo-European languages reported on in the literature.

Dialect. --- Inuktitut language --- Native American & Hyperborean Languages --- Languages & Literatures --- Inuktitut dialect --- Inuttitut language --- Inuttut dialect --- Inuit language --- Acquisition --- Syntax --- Psycholinguistics --- Eskimo language --- Asian languages --- Acquisition. --- Syntax.

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"Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community is a study of indigenous language maintenance in an Arctic Quebec community where four languages - Inuktitut, Cree, French, and English are spoken. It examines the role that dominant and minority languages play in the social life of this community, linking historical analysis with an ethnographic study of face-to-face interaction and attitudes towards learning and speaking second and third languages in everyday life."--Jacket

Anthropological linguistics --- Inuit --- Inuktitut language --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Innuit --- Inupik --- Eskimos --- Inuktitut dialect --- Inuttitut language --- Inuttut dialect --- Inuit language --- History. --- Social life and customs. --- Kuujjuarapik (Québec) --- Kuujjuaraapik (Québec) --- Great Whale River (Québec) --- Poste-de-la-Baleine (Québec)