Child Language Literature
on Native Languages of the Southwest
| Title | Family | Language | Area | Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kroeber, A. L. (1916). The speech of a Zuni child. American Anthropologist, 529–534. | Isolate | Zuni | Child speech | Download |
| Chee, M. R. (2007). The acquisition of Navajo verbs [MA thesis]. University of New Mexico. | Na-Dene | Navajo | Child speech | Download |
| Chee, M. R. (2017). A longitudinal cross-sectional study on the acquisition of Navajo verbs in children aged 4 years through 11 years [PhD dissertation]. University of New Mexico. | Na-Dene | Navajo | Child speech | Download |
| Courtney, E. H., & Saville-Troike, M. (2000). Child acquisition of Navajo and Quechua verb complexes: Issues of paradigm-learning. Coyote Papers: Working Papers in Linguistics, Special Volume on Native American Languages, 11, 25–50. | Na-Dene | Navajo | Child speech | Download |
| Courtney, E. H., & Saville-Troike, M. (2002). Learning to construct verbs in Navajo and Quechua. Journal of Child Language, 29(03), 623–654. | Na-Dene | Navajo | Child speech | Download |
| Foster, S. H., Singer, G., Benally, L., Boone, T., & Beck, A. (1989). Describing the language of Navajo children. Journal of Navajo Education, VII(1), 13–17. | Na-Dene | Navajo | Child speech | |
| Saville-Troike, M. (1996). Development of the inflected verb in Navajo child language. In E. Jelinek, S. Midgette, K. Rice, & L. Saxon (Eds.), Athabaskan Language Studies: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Young (pp. 137–192). University of New Mexico Press. | Na-Dene | Navajo | Child speech | Info |
| Titiev, M. (1946). Suggestions for the further study of Hopi. International Journal of American Linguistics, 12(2), 89–91. | Uto-Aztecan | Hopi | Child speech | Download |
| Miller, W. R. (1965). Acoma grammar and texts. University of California Press. | Keresan | Acoma | Child-directed speech | Info |
| Gentner, D., & Boroditsky, L. (2009). Early acquisition of nouns and verbs: Evidence from Navajo. In V. C. M. Gathercole (Ed.), Routes to language: Studies in honor of Melissa Bowerman (pp. 5–32). Routledge. | Na-Dene | Navajo | Child speech | Download |
| Iris, M. (1994). A Lexical/Semantic Analysis of Navajo Children’s Lexicons. In Proceedings of the twentieth meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society: Papers from the parasessions (pp. 143–149). | Na-Dene | Navajo | Child speech | Info |
| Iris, M. A. (1981). Navajo children’s lexical development and the acquisition of world view. Northwestern University. | Na-Dene | Navajo | Child speech | Info |
| Young, R. W. (1971). The development of semantic categories in Spanish-English and Navajo-English bilingual children. Conference on Child Language, 193–208. | Na-Dene | Navajo | Child speech | Download |
| Chee, Melvatha R., & Ryan E. Henke. (2024). Child and child-directed speech in North American languages. In Carmen Dagostino, Marianne Mithun, and Keren Rice (Eds.), The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America A Comprehensive Guide, Vol. 2, pp. 741–766. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton | Various from the US & Canada | Various from the US & Canada | Child speech | Download |
*Table adapted from Chee and Henke (2024).