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Early production of the passive in two Eastern Bantu languages. [PDF]
First Lang, 2012 The passive construction is acquired relatively late by children learning to speak many languages, with verbal passives not fully acquired till age 6 in English. In other languages it appears earlier, around age 3 or before.
Alcock KJ, Rimba K, Newton CR.
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Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2002 This paper uses data from the Mayan languages to evaluate expanded [NFL theories derived from the work of Pollock (1989) and Chomsky (1995). The combination of ergative agreement with subject agreement closer to the verb than object agreement pose ...
Pye, Clifton
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The Acquisition of Mayan Morphosyntax
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2002 This paper assesses predictions for the acquisition of Mayan verbal inflections derived from structural, comparative and metrical theories. The structuralist theory of Wexler (1998) fails to predict K'iche' (Kiche) children's use of the language's ...
Pye, Clifton
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Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Writing. The Parallel Lives of Michael Ventris and Linda Schele and the Decipherment of Mycenaean and Mayan Writing [PDF]
, 2000 Catalogue of an exhibition conducted in conjunction with the Eleventh International Mycenological Colloquium held at the University of Texas at Austin in 2000.
Palaima, Thomas G. +2 more
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Glossa, 2019 In addition to roots for familiar classes like verb, noun, and adjective, Mayan languages have a class of roots traditionally called “positional”. Positional roots are distinct from other roots most prominently in terms of requiring derivation into stems
Robert Henderson
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2018 The probability is one of the many factors which influence phonetic variation. Contextual probability, which describes how predictable a linguistic unit is in some local environment, has been consistently shown to modulate the phonetic salience of words and other linguistic units in speech production (the probabilistic reduction effect).
Tang, Kevin, Bennett, Ryan
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The development of complex verb constructions in British Sign Language [PDF]
, 2002 This study focuses on the mapping of events onto verb-argument structures in British Sign Language (BSL). The development of complex sentences in BSL is described in a group of 30 children, aged 3;2–12;0, using data from comprehension measures and ...
Herman, R., Morgan, G., Woll, B.
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Against Taking Linguistic Diversity at "Face Value" [PDF]
, 2009 Evans & Levinson (E&L)advocate taking linguistic diversity at "face value". Their argument consists of a list of diverse phenomena, and the assertion that no non-vacuous theory could possibly uncover a meaningful unity underlying them.
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Morphological Alternations at the Intonational Phrase Edge [PDF]
, 2012 This article develops an analysis of a pair of morphological alternations in K\u27ichee\u27 (Mayan) that are conditioned at the right edge of intonational phrase boundaries.
Adam Werle +49 more
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Comments on Austronesian nominalism: A Mayan perspective [PDF]
, 2017 In the conclusion of his article on Austronesian voice and extraction, Kaufman suggests the possibility of extending his analysis of extraction facts in Tagalog to other ‘‘syntactically ergative’’ languages (i.e. languages in which ergative arguments are
Coon Burgess, Jessica Louise
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