Word learning in the field: Adapting a laboratory-based task for testing in remote Papua New Guinea
by Karen E. Mulak, Hannah S. Sarvasy, Alba Tuninetti, Paola Escudero
Adapting laboratory psycholinguistic methods to fieldwork contexts can be fraught with difficulties. However, successful implementation of such methods in the field enhances our ability to learn the true extent and limitations of human behavior. This paper reports two attempts to run word learning experiments with the small community of Nungon speakers in Towet village in the Saruwaged Mountains, Papua New Guinea. A first... Читать дальше...