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Dugan, James Timothy – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study describes the grammar of the Ch'orti' Maya language as it appears in a collection of oral literature. I collected the stories that form the basis of this study in and around Jocotan, Guatemala, during 2004 and 2005. I worked with bilingual story-tellers to make audio recordings of the original Ch'orti'-language tales, produce textual…
Descriptors: Mayan Languages, Grammar, Oral Language, Literature
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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