Sara Johansson
Contact Info
- Office: Grad Room (SN-3063)
- Telephone: (709) 864-8131
- Fax: (709) 864-4000
- Email: sara.j.johansson@gmail.com
- Website: http://sites.google.com/site/sarajanejohansson/
Supervisor
- Dr. Julie Brittain
Research Interests
- Algonquian Morphosyntax; Language Acquisition.
Thesis Title
- On the Acquisition of Verbal Morphology: A Case Study of Northern East Cree.
Thesis Description
I am undertaking a case study of child language development in Northern East Cree through the Chisasibi Child Language Acquisition Study (http://www.mun.ca/cclas/). Northern East Cree is a polysynthetic language with complex morphophonology. I am tracking the acquisition of verbal morphology of one child from roughly age 4 to 6 to investigate strategies used by children to learn Northern East Cree, and theories of the acquisition of polysynthetic languages in general.
