2019
DOI: 10.1177/1367006919826328
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Northern Pame-Spanish language acquisition in the context of incipient language loss

Abstract: Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: Northern Pame (autonym: Xi’iuy) is an Otopamean language situated in the Mexican state of San Luís Potosí. Today over 90% of the Pame population speaks Spanish, and two-year-old children only speak Northern Pame in two Northern Pame villages. The paper explores differences in two-year-old Pame children’s production of words in Northern Pame and Spanish in order to assess the possibility that developmental constraints and/or language shift influence the form and d… Show more

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“…For each child, we selected a one-hour session for the analysis of the speech of one adult participant. The children and adults produced words in Northern Pame and Spanish (Pye, Berthiaume & Pfeiler, 2019). For the purpose of this study, we focus on the words that the child and adults produced in Northern Pame.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…For each child, we selected a one-hour session for the analysis of the speech of one adult participant. The children and adults produced words in Northern Pame and Spanish (Pye, Berthiaume & Pfeiler, 2019). For the purpose of this study, we focus on the words that the child and adults produced in Northern Pame.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Two-year-old children only speak Northern Pame in two of the seven principal Northern Pame villages that surround the town of La Palma. Due to massive lexical borrowing from Spanish in the adult language, children under three produce nearly half of their words in Spanish (Pye, Berthiaume & Pfeiler, 2019); the use of Spanish increases sharply once the children enter public school at age three.…”
Section: Nominal Morphology In Northern Pamementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such situations appear to be problematic at first glance, but actually present more opportunities than problems (cf. Pye, 2013; Pye et al ., 2020). We do not have a good record of children's language for communities that are in the process of abandoning the indigenous language.…”
Section: Impediments To Research On Indigenous Languagesmentioning
confidence: 99%