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Marisa 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