SP28: The Acquisition Sketch Project

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ISBN-13: 978-1-952460-04-3

Editors

Birgit Hellwig, Shanley E.M. Allen, Lucinda Davidson, Rebecca Defina, Barbara F. Kelly, Evan Kidd

Abstract

This special publication aims to build a renewed enthusiasm for collecting acquisition data across many languages, including those facing endangerment and loss. It presents a guide for documenting and describing child language and child-directed language in diverse languages and cultures, as well as a collection of acquisition sketches based on this guide. The guide is intended for anyone interested in working across child language and language documentation, including, for example, field linguists and language documenters, community language workers, child language researchers or graduate students.

Contents

Front Matter

Introduction: The acquisition sketch project
Birgit Hellwig, Shanley E. M. Allen, Lucinda Davidson, Rebecca Defina, Barbara F. Kelly, Evan Kidd

Sketch Acquisition Manual (SAM), Part I: The sketch corpus
Rebecca Defina, Shanley E. M. Allen, Lucinda Davidson, Birgit Hellwig, Barbara F. Kelly, Evan Kidd

Sketch Acquisition Manual (SAM), Part II: The acquisition sketch
Rebecca Defina, Shanley E. M. Allen, Lucinda Davidson, Birgit Hellwig, Barbara F. Kelly, Evan Kidd

Broadening language documentation with child language data: First-hand experience from Tolitoli
Christoph Bracks, Maria Bardají i Farré

Exploring case marking in German first language acquisition using the acquisition sketch approach
Gianna Urbanczik

An acquisition sketch of Inuktitut
Hannah Lee, Shanley E. M. Allen