San Roque, L. & B. B. Schieffelin. Language Socialisation in the Papuan context

Abstract

This chapter reviews research on language socialisation in Papuan languages and will appear (subject to edits) in N. Evans & S. Fedden (eds.), The Oxford Guide to Papuan Languages. Readers who are interested in this topic are pointed to the chapter on language acquisition by Hellwig, Sarvasy, and Casillas in the same volume.

Differential Object Marking in Aymara A linguistic contact-induced phenomenon from Spanish.

“…For La Paz Aymara, the materials were obtained through spontaneous narratives and two semi-structured tasks designed to stimulate the expression of knowledge: the Family Problems Picture task (San Roque et al 2012) and The Pear Story (Chafe 1980). The Family Problems task includes 16 black-and-white pictures.…”

A language documentation perspective: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)

“…These are but a handful of phenomena that stand out. More could be added, and I refer the reader to Hellwig et al (forthcoming) and San Roque and Schieffelin (forthcoming) for overviews of the contributions that Papuan languages and cultures can make toward language acquisition and socialization research. In this commentary, I want to embark on a different trajectory: to highlight the disconnect between the vast body of knowledge about Papuan languages, on one hand, and the dearth of knowledge about their acquisition, on the other hand.…”