The Acquisition of Mayan Morphosyntax

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 agreement morphology and existen...

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Main Author: Pye, Clifton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 2002-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/586