Child language documentation: A pilot project in Papua New Guinea

dc.contributor.author	Birgit Hellwig
dc.date.accessioned	2020-11-30T19:12:50Z
dc.date.available	2020-11-30T19:12:50Z
dc.date.issued	25-Apr-20
dc.description.abstract	The central aim of language documentation is to comprehensively document the characteristic speech practices of a community. Such practices necessarily also include child language and child-directed speech-and yet there are only very few documentation projects that focus on language from and with children. This paper argues for studying first language acquisition and socialization within a language documentation context, focusing on the types of data needed for such a study and drawing on the insights from a pilot project among the Qaqet of Papua New Guinea. The aim of this pilot project was to investigate the feasibility of a comprehensive child language documentation project, and this paper discusses the central challenges to such an endeavour and shows how they were addressed in the project.
dc.identifier.citation	Hellwig, Birgit. 2020. Child language documentation: A pilot project in Papua New Guinea. In Susan Penfield, (Ed.) Approaches to Interdisciplinary research in Language Documentation.
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-9856211-9-3
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24942
dc.publisher	University of Hawai'I Press
dc.relation.ispartofseries	LD&C Special Publication
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License
dc.title	Child language documentation: A pilot project in Papua New Guinea

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