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Garrido Rodriguez, Gabriela; Norcliffe, Elisabeth; Brown, Penelope; Huettig, Falk; Levinson, Stephen C. – Cognitive Science, 2023
We present a visual world eye-tracking study on Tseltal (a Mayan language) and investigate whether verbal information can be used to anticipate an upcoming referent. Basic word order in transitive sentences in Tseltal is Verb--Object--Subject (VOS). The verb is usually encountered first, making argument structure and syntactic information…
Descriptors: Mayan Languages, Eye Movements, Word Order, Verbs
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Brown, Penelope – Language Sciences, 2008
The Tzeltal language is spoken in a mountainous region of southern Mexico by some 280,000 Mayan corn farmers. This paper focuses on landscape and place vocabulary in the Tzeltal municipio of Tenejapa, where speakers use an absolute system of spatial reckoning based on the overall uphill (southward)/downhill (northward) slope of the land. The paper…
Descriptors: Semantics, Foreign Countries, Mayan Languages, Vocabulary
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Davies, William D.; Sam-Colop, Luis Enrique – Language, 1990
Verb agreement in the K'iche' agentive voice appears to deviate from the ergative/absolutive system of other Mayan languages, leading some to treat agreement in the agentive as falling outside the regular agreement system as well as to differing views regarding appropriate syntactic representation of the agentive construction with respect to final…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Mayan Languages, Quiche, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
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de Leon, Lourdes – International Journal of Bilingualism, 1999
Suggests that children follow different paths into learning verbs, and that there are several forces guiding the learning process: cognitive as well as language specific matters, such as morphology, semantics, and discourse. Sketches the basic characteristics of verbs in Tzotzil and examines two children's productions at the end of their…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Mayan Languages