first language acquisition

[Marino]

There was a study done in the 70s by Alicia Nokony, then a linguistics grad 
student at UBC.  The language was Dakota (Oak Lake reserve, MB) - the 
children in the family were acquiring both Dakota and English.  This is the 
only one I know of, but I thought I would check to see if anyone is aware 
of other work that has been done, or is being done.

I have a colleague in the college of Medicine here who is in developmental 
pediatrics.  The college is looking to develop a Speech/Language Pathology 
program.  The strong need for health care in this area in aboriginal 
communities is a major incentive to do this.  He has consulted me about the 
state of research in this area, so I am collecting what information I can 
to help the effort along.

Mary



At 03:41 PM 4/28/2006, you wrote:
>Personally, I haven't heard of anyone working on that.  Where would you do 
>the work except in a very few Dakotan and Crow communities?      B.
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>From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu on behalf of Marino
>Sent: Fri 4/28/2006 10:50 AM
>To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>Subject: first language acquisition
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>Does anyone know of current or recent studies of first-language acquisition
>in those Siouan languages that are still being acquired by children?  Is
>anyone actively working on this?
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>Mary Marino
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