Descriptor
| American Indian Languages | 1 |
| Child Language | 1 |
| Grammar | 1 |
| Language Acquisition | 1 |
| Morphology (Languages) | 1 |
| Navajo | 1 |
| Oral Language | 1 |
| Phonology | 1 |
| Semantics | 1 |
| Verbs | 1 |
Source
| Journal of Child Language | 1 |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 1 |
| Reports - Research | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
| North America | 1 |
| South America | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkCourtney, Ellen H.; Saville-Troike, Muriel – Journal of Child Language, 2002
Navajo and Quechua, both languages with a highly complex morphology, provide intriguing insights into the acquisition of inflectional systems. The development of the verb in the two languages is especially interesting, since the morphology encodes diverse grammatical notions, with the complex verb often constituting the entire sentence. While the…
Descriptors: Semantics, American Indian Languages, Morphology (Languages), Verbs
