Culture and Language Development: Language Acquisition and Language Socialization in a Samoan Village

摘要: List of photographs Foreword by Shirley Brice Heath Acknowledgements 1. To know a language 2. Methodology 3. Introduction to Samoan usage: grammar and register 4. The social contexts childhood: village household organisation 5. Ergative case marking: variation acquisition 6. Word-order strategies: the two-constituent bias 7. Clarification 8. Affect, control child 9. linguistic expression affect 10. Literacy instruction in 11. Language as symbol tool Appendix I. Transcription conventions II. Canonical transitive verb types children's speech References Index.