List of figures
Figure 1.Language map for the Wadeye and Fitzmaurice river regions5
Figure 2.Developmental stages of verbal PWords71
Figure 3.Classifier stem morphological property sets: Acacia 2;6–2;778
Figure 4.Mean size of paradigm (30) by child85
Figure 5.MSP(20) for CSPs be(4), hands(8), poke(19) and say/do(34) by child88
Figure 6.Distribution of classifier stem subject use for all focus children by age bracket89
Figure 7.Distribution of classifier stem TAM use for all focus children by age bracket91
Figure 8.Impressionistic development of miniparadigms93
Figure 9.Distribution of non-future across frequent subject categories for all children by age bracket94
Figure 10.First contrastive CSP use across five age brackets111
Figure 11.Miniparadigm of ‘to open’ Acacia (3;6–3;7)119
Figure 12.Anonymised fish with a line stimulus125