Linguistics Public Lecture: The Rise of Classificatory Verbs
A talk by Dr. Dagmar Jung, University of Zurich
Event
Date: Tuesday, May 21
Time: 2:30 pm
Location: Room 100 Arts Building, 9 Campus Dr., Saskatoon
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Free and open to the public
About this event
The Rise of Classificatory Verbs: Using a Naturalistic Corpus of Dene First Language Acquisition to Study Conceptual Development
by Dr. Dagmar Jung, University of Zurich
In this talk, I discuss some of the challenges and rewards of using naturalistic data in a language acquisition study located in La Loche and Clearwater River Dene Nation (SK) that took place 2014–19.
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