Pame Noun Inflection

Gibson, Lorna F.; Bartholomew, Doris

doi:10.1086/465613

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“…Central Pame has a similar class of nouns as well illustrated in the pair nokkoi'l 'my skirt' and rokkoi'l 'our skirt'. Although Gibson and Bartholomew (1979) do not indicate nasalization on the singular form, we can assume that it exists by virtue of the fact that an 11 precedes it and surely spreads its nasality onto the vowel. Such a phonemic contrast would be difficult to discover.…”

Section: Rootmentioning

confidence: 87%

“…Languages that allow one or more of the laryngeal features word finally, such as English, arc considered to be marked. In the case of Northern Pame, if the sequences mb, nd, and IJ9 were underlyingly two distinct segments, we would at least expect word final voiced stops to surface by themselves, a fact that the 1 Avelino ( 1997), Gibson ( 1979) and Manrique Castaneda ( 1967). Southern Pame, once spoken in Jiliapan and Pacula is said to be extinct, thus leaving us with only Central and Northern Pame.…”

Section: Word Final Neutralizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Nasalization in Northern Pame

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Northern Pame nasal stops manifest a [-nasal] secondary feature (i.e. prestopping and poststopping) in the environment of an oral vowel. Specifically, nasal stops following an oral vowel have two phases, an oral closure and a nasal release, while nasal stops preceeding and oral vowel loose their nasal distinction completely. In this paper, I propose an aperture analysis where a segment's closure and release may come into play in the linking of a [-nasal] feature. In addition, I suggest that Northern Pame oral vowels may be better specified as underlyingly [-nasal] while nasal vowels remain unmarked for nasality, deriving their feature specification through default rules. Finally, it is shown that the phenomenon of [-nasal] spreading is productive typologically in a similar pattern to that of Northern Pame.

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Section: Word Final Neutralizationmentioning

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Nasalization in Northern Pame

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“…Northern Pame (autonym: Xi'iuy) is a member of the Otopamean branch of the Otomanguean language family (Gibson & Bartholomew, 1979). The Otomanguean language family contains 18 major languages that were once spoken across Mexico and Central America, although Campbell (2017, p. 3) states 'there is nothing near a consensus for the number of Otomanguean languages.…”

Section: Nominal Morphology In Northern Pamementioning

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The acquisition of noun inflection in Northern Pame (Xi'iuy): Comparing whole word and minimal word accounts

Pye

Berthiaume²,

Pfeiler

2020

J. Child Lang.

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The study used naturalistic data on the production of nominal prefixes in the Otopamean language Northern Pame (autonym: Xi'iuy) to test Whole Word (constructivist) and Minimal Word (prosodic) theories for the acquisition of inflection. Whole Word theories assume that children store words in their entirety; Minimal Word theories assume that children produce words as binary feet. Northern Pame uses obligatory portmanteaux prefixes to inflect nouns for class, number, animacy and possessor. Singular nouns constitute 90 percent of the nouns that the children hear and yet all five two-year-old children frequently omitted the singular noun prefixes, but produced the low frequency noun suffixes for dual and animate plural. Neither the children's production of the noun-class prefixes nor their prefix overextensions correlated with the adult type and token frequencies of production. Northern Pame children constructed Minimal Words that contain binary feet and disfavor the production of initial, extrametrical prefixes.

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“…Northern Pame (autonym: Xi’iuy) belongs to the Otopamean branch of the Otomanguean language family (Berthiaume, 2012; Gibson & Bartholomew, 1979). The Otomanguean language family contains 18 major languages that once spread across Mexico and Central America, although Campbell (2017:3) states ‘there is nothing near a consensus for the number of Otomanguean languages.…”

Section: Northern Pamementioning

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Northern Pame-Spanish language acquisition in the context of incipient language loss

Pye

Berthiaume

Pfeiler

2019

International Journal of Bilingualism

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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 distribution of the children’s words in the two languages. Design/Methodology/Approach: The study is based on video recordings of five Northern Pame children around the age of 2;0. The adult speakers included one father and four mothers. Four hours of production data were analyzed from each of the five children. Data and Analysis: We analyzed the following: (1) the proportion of major lexical categories; (2) the use of the Spanish copula ser in Pame; (3) the mean segmental length of words in Pame and Spanish; and (4) the syllable structure of words in Pame and Spanish. Findings/Conclusions: The overall results demonstrate that the children’s Pame and Spanish words have distinct linguistic properties. Originality: The study is the first to report acquisition data for the Northern Pame language. Northern Pame differs from Spanish on a wide range of lexical and grammatical features. The analysis includes four lexical features. The outcomes for these four features produce a multi-dimensional measure of language differentiation. Significance/Implications: The study shows that Northern Pame parents are successfully passing their home language to their children despite pressure from the contact language. The children acquired the features of Pame words even though some mothers produced over 40% of their nouns in Spanish. The Spanish vocabulary does not inhibit the children’s developing Pame lexical structures.

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Pame Noun Inflection

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Nasalization in Northern Pame

Nasalization in Northern Pame

The acquisition of noun inflection in Northern Pame (Xi'iuy): Comparing whole word and minimal word accounts

Northern Pame-Spanish language acquisition in the context of incipient language loss

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