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Direct linkMarisa Casillas; Ruthe Foushee; Juan Méndez Girón; Gilles Polian; Penelope Brown – First Language, 2024
This study examines whether children acquiring Tseltal (Mayan) demonstrate a noun bias -- an overrepresentation of nouns in their early vocabularies. Nouns, specifically concrete and animate nouns, are argued to universally predominate in children's early vocabularies because their referents are naturally available as bounded concepts to which…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Language Acquisition, Nouns, Mayan Languages
Olivier Le Guen; Rossy Kinil Canche; Merli Collí Hau; Geli Collí Collí – Sign Language Studies, 2023
This article analyzes the construction of sign names in an emerging sign language from Mexico, the Yucatec Maya Sign Language (YMSL). Data comes from elicited interviews as well as natural interactions collected by the authors and signers from two different villages, Chicán and Nohkop. Despite YMSL being an isolate language, sign name construction…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Mayan Languages, Foreign Countries, Self Concept
Anuschka van ’t Hooft; José Luis González Compeán – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2024
Young urban migrants can be valuable actors in projects that aim to document and revitalize their Indigenous languages, especially when these efforts involve new technologies. Based on data from a Huastec (Tének) language documentation project in Mexico, this article describes the digital interactions of young migrants in the documentation and…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Urban Areas, Native Language, Language Maintenance
Mateo Pedro, Pedro – First Language, 2021
Causatives have received considerable attention in first language acquisition. Of Mayan languages, acquisition of the causative has only been investigated for K'iche' and Tzotzil, based on longitudinal and spontaneous data. K'iche'-speaking children do not acquire morphological causatives until the age of 3 years, while children acquiring Tzotzil…
Descriptors: Mayan Languages, Language Acquisition, Native Language, Preschool Children
Hector de Jesus Palala Martinez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores innovative approaches to preserving and revitalizing the linguistic and cultural heritage of Mayan-speaking youth of Guatemalan descent in rural Nebraska. It delves into the intersection of technology, artistic expression, and cultural practices, emphasizing the revitalization of Mayan languages in Abya Yala (the…
Descriptors: Mayan Languages, Foreign Countries, Culturally Relevant Education, Cultural Maintenance
Luis Javier Pentón Herrera – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
This article describes the journey I embarked on as a teacher-researcher to better understand the realities of two of my Maya English learners (ELs) in our learning environment. This yearlong (2018-2019) study took the form of a qualitative case study inquiry whose purpose was to explore how two Maya migrant youth from Guatemala experienced and…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Immigrants, Maya (People)
