Morphological Representation in an Endangered, Polysynthetic Language  

Oleh:

Rice, Sally ; Libben, Gary ; Derwing, Bruce

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 81 no. 1-3 (2002), page 473-486.
Topik: morphological awareness; polysynthesis; Athapaskan; endangered language; comparative psycholinguistics
Fulltext: 81_01-03_Rice.pdf (131.28KB)

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This article presents the results from an initial psycholinguistic study of patterns of morphological representation in Dene Su(Ëine´ (Chipewyan), an indigenous and highly endangered language spoken in Northwestern Canada. Our investigation focused on how morphological knowledge in this polysynthetic language is affected across various levels of language attrition by employing a morphological segmentation task and an off-line lexical decision task. We discuss the manner in which these tasks target different aspects of morphological ability and then turn to methodological issues associated with conducting psycholinguistic studies with language users that differ in levels of age, education, literacy, and bilingualism (Dene– English). Finally, we report on the challenges of doing psycholinguistic research outside the confines of a university setting and make some recommendations to other researchers who might wish to undertake similar studies.

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