From Little Things, Big Things Grow: How Children Learn a Morphologically Complex Australian Indigenous Language

A comparative study of child-directed language across five cultures based on data from the Acquisition Sketch Project

E Kidd, B Hellwig, R Garcia, R Defina, L Davidson, S Allen

2025-01-01

Throughout the history of child language acquisition research, the study of child-directed language (CDL) has attracted significan..

An acquisition sketch of polysynthetic verbal morphology in Murrinhpatha

W Forshaw, L Davidson, R Nordlinger

2025-01-01

Murrinhpatha is one of the few traditional Australian Indigenous languages still being acquired by children. It is the traditional..

Using Categories to Assert Authority in Murrinhpatha-Speaking Children's Talk

Lucinda Davidson

2022-02-15

Children, like speakers more generally, often use categories of person, place, and activity (e.g., doctor, school, bedtime) to fra..

From body part to applicative: Encoding ‘source’ in Murrinhpatha

Rachel Nordlinger

2019-01-01

Murrinhpatha (non-Pama-Nyungan, Australia) is typologically unusual in having a single applicative construction with the semantics..

Tools of Engagement: Selecting a Next Speaker in Australian Aboriginal Multiparty Conversations

J Blythe, R Gardner, I Mushin, L Stirling

2018-04-03

Building on earlier Conversation Analytic work on turn-taking and response mobilization, we use video-recorded multiparty conversa..

The acquisition of Murrinhpatha (Northern Australia)

W Forshaw, L Davidson, B Kelly, R Nordlinger, G Wigglesworth, J Blythe

2017-01-01

This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-m..

Indigenous children's language: Acquisition, preservation and evolution of language in minority contexts Introduction

Barbara F Kelly, Evan Kidd, Gillian Wigglesworth

2015-10-01

Inflection in Murrinh-Patha

R NORDLINGER

2015-05-15

Linguistic diversity in first language acquisition research: moving beyond the challenges

R NORDLINGER, B Kelly, W Forshaw, G Wigglesworth

2015-01-01

The field of first language acquisition (FLA) needs to take into account data from the broadest typological array of languages and..

The acquisition of polysynthetic languages

B Kelly, G Wigglesworth, R Nordlinger, J Blythe

2014-01-01

One of the major challenges in acquiring a language is being able to use morphology as an adult would, and thus, a considerable am..