Articles

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Learning the meaning of verbs: insights from Quechua, First Language (2010)

Largely based on observations of English-speaking children, investigators have proposed constraints on verb learning, e.g.,...

 

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Child production of Quechua evidential morphemes in conversations and story retellings, Journal of Child Language (2008)

Languages such as Turkish, Korean, and Japanese exhibit evidential morphemes encoding information source as direct...

 

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Adult and child production of Quechua relative clauses, First Language (2006)

This study investigates the production of Quechua relative clauses by Peruvian adults and children, aged...

 

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Child acquisition of Quechua causatives and change-of-state verbs, First Language (2002)

This paper uses data concerning the acquisition of Quechua causatives to explore the development of...

 

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Learning to construct verbs in Navajo and Quechua (with Muriel Saville-Troike), Journal of Child Language (2002)

Navajo and Quechua, both languages with a highly complex morphology, provide intriguing insights into the...

 

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Child acquisition of the Quechua affirmative suffix, Proceedings from the second workshop on American Indigenous Languages (Santa Barbara papers in Linguistics) (1999)
 

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The acquisition of collective nouns (with P. Bloom, D. Kelemen, and A. Fountain), Proceedings of the Boston University Conference of Language Development (1995)
 

Contributions to Books

School and Family [chapter 6] (with H. Douglas Adamson), Language minority students in American schools: An education in English (2005)
 

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Duplication in the L2 Spanish produced by Quechua-speaking children: Transfer of a pragmatic strategy, Language in Contact (2000)

Languages long in contact in the Andean countries, Quechua and Spanish are intriguing partners in...