The acquisition of Yucatecan Maya prosody

Archibald, John

The acquisition of Yucatecan Maya prosody

dc.contributor.author	Archibald, John
dc.date.accessioned	2016-06-17T21:53:04Z
dc.date.available	2016-06-17T21:53:04Z
dc.date.issued	1996-01
dc.description.abstract	In this paper I'm going to talk about some data that I gathered and analyzed while I was in Mexico. I had the opportunity to get involved with a research project at the Autonomous University of the Yucatan, headed by Dra. Barbara Pfeiler, that was looking at the acquisition of Yucatecan Maya. The Maya language family consists of 31 languages, spoken mainly in Guatemala and the south of Mexico by about 3.5 million people. Yucatecan Maya is estimated to have about 600,000 speakers. The influence of Spanish in the area is, of course, strong. Many of the people are bilingual and the issue of maintaining the Mayan language in the next generation is a hot educational topic. This will become an important factor when we look at some of the prosodic changes that seem to have happened to YM in the past century.	en_US
dc.description.refereed	Yes	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Archibald, J. (1996). The acquisition of Yucatecan Maya prosody. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 18(Winter), 1-22.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28925
dc.identifier.issn	2371-2643
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51391
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Calgary	en_US
dc.publisher.department	Linguistics	en_US
dc.publisher.faculty	Arts	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en_US
dc.subject	Linguistics	en_US
dc.subject	Mayan languages	en_US
dc.subject	Maya language	en_US
dc.subject	Speech Prosody	en_US
dc.subject	Phonology	en_US
dc.subject	Language acquisition	en_US
dc.subject	Languages in contact	en_US
dc.title	The acquisition of Yucatecan Maya prosody	en_US
dc.type	journal article