Affiliation:
1. The Pennsylvania State University
2. La Universidad de Oriente
Abstract
Abstract
Yucatec Maya differs from many better-known languages in that it has optional
plural marking. In a psycholinguistic study of the production of optional plural
marking with college-enrolled speakers of Yucatec Maya, Butler, Jaeger, and Bohnemeyer (2014) found that
conceptual number information influences the production of optional plural
marking. Since the participants in the Butler et al. (2014) study are not necessarily representative of
speakers of Yucatec Maya, we examine the effects of conceptual number
information, via the manipulation of set size, while factoring in the effects of
age, education and language use variables on the production of optional plural
morphology among bilingual speakers of Yucatec Maya and Spanish speaking in
Yucatec Maya. In addition to finding effects of conceptual information, we found
that education, but not age, significantly influences the production of plural
morphology in Yucatec Maya. Participants with higher levels of education were
more sensitive to conceptual number information.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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