Acquisition of English by Inuktitut Speaking Children

Regions: Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut

Tags: social sciences, Inuktitut language, ESL

Principal Investigator: Moss, Siobhan (1)
Licence Number: 12171
Organization: McGill University
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Issued: Jan 01, 1992
Project Team: Self

Objective(s): To contribute to studies of Native languages and studies of contact between language; to contribute to studies of language acquisition, especially in the field of bilingual or multilingual acquisition;

Project Description: The researcher will examine the influences of first language characteristics on a second language and see whether the acquisition of English as a second language progresses in the same manner as acquisition of English as a first language.