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The use of complex structures with a word class change in Inuktitut child-directed speech [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Caregivers typically use a simplified mode of the language – child-directed speech (CDS) – when addressing young children. In this study, we investigate the use of complex morphological structures with a word class change within a single word in ...
Olga Alice Johnson, Shanley E. M. Allen
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Perception and Production of Sentence Types by Inuktitut-English Bilinguals

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
We explore the perception and production of English statements, absolute yes-no questions, and declarative questions by Inuktitut-English sequential bilinguals.
Laura Colantoni   +4 more
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Prendre l’inuktitut au sérieux : la traduction de ᐆᒪᔪᕐᓯᐅᑎᒃ ᐅᓈᑐᐃᓐᓇᒧᑦ [Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut]

open access: yesAlternative Francophone
Cet article présente le projet qui a conduit les auteurs à traduire le premier texte de fiction littéraire jamais publié dans une langue autochtone du Canada, la langue des Inuit.
Valerie Henitiuk, Marc-Antoine Mahieu
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Estimating climate change and mental health impacts in Canada: A cross-sectional survey protocol. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
Climate change has severe and sweeping impacts on mental health. Although research is burgeoning on mental health impacts following climate and weather extremes, less is known about how common these impacts are outside of extreme events.
Sherilee L Harper   +6 more
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A syntax for semantic incorporation: generating low-scope indefinite objects in Inuktitut

open access: yesGlossa, 2019
The range of scope readings for Inuktitut nominal expressions appears superficially to depend on the verbal morpho-syntax, with noun incorporation and antipassive inflection both playing a role. A new model is presented in which the syntactic role played
Douglas Wharram, Phil Branigan
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Is Inuktitut a morphological argument language? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In the following I will discuss grammatical structures of Inuktitut, an Eskimo language spoken in the Canadian Eastern Arctic. Inuktitut is a polysynthetic language exhibiting an exceedingly elaborate verbal inflectional system including polypersonal marking.
Nowak, Elke
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The Role of Prosody and Morphology in the Mapping of Information Structure onto Syntax

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
The mapping of information structure onto morphology or intonation varies greatly crosslinguistically. Agglutinative languages, like Inuktitut or Quechua, have a rich morphological layer onto which discourse-level features are mapped but a limited use of
Laura Colantoni, Liliana Sánchez
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