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Author Ud Deen, Kamil.

Title The acquisition of Swahili / Kamil Ud Deen.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 241 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Language acquisition & language disorders, 0925-0123 ; v. 40
Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 40.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-234) and index.
Contents The Acquisition of Swahili; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; 1. SETTING THE SCENE; 2. THE SWAHILI LANGUAGE; 3. THEORIES OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; 4. RESULTS AND EVALUATING THEORIES; APPENDIX 1. METHODOLOGY AND RELATED ISSUES.; APPENDIX 2. STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF ADULT SWAHILI; APPENDIX 3. THE STAGING PROCESS; APPENDIX 4. INDIVIDUAL CHILD DATA; REFERENCES; SUBJECT INDEX; INDEX OF NAMES; The series Language Acquisition and Language Disorders.
Summary This monograph is the first study of the acquisition of Swahili as a first language. It focuses on the acquisition of inflectional affixes, with a particular emphasis on subject agreement and tense. Other inflectional affixes are also investigated, including object agreement and mood. The study surveys the adult dialect in question, Nairobi Swahili, discussing social, phonological, morphological and syntactic properties. Data, analyses and copious examples are presented of the naturalistic speech of four Swahili speaking children. The data are tested against six influential theories of child l.
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Subject Swahili language -- Acquisition.
Swahili language.
Swahili language -- Dialects -- Kenya -- Nairobi.
Swahili language -- Dialects.
Kenya -- Nairobi.
Swahili language -- Verb.
Swahili language -- Verb.
Swahili language -- Affixes.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Affixes.
Children -- Language.
Children -- Language.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Children.
Other Form: Print version: Ud Deen, Kamil. Acquisition of Swahili. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2005 (DLC) 2005053684
ISBN 9789027293978 (electronic book)
902729397X (electronic book)
9789027253002 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9027253005 (hardback ; alkaline paper)