Pedro Mateo Pedro

Dados Biográficos

ID1009694
NOMEPedro Mateo Pedro
PRENOMESPedro Mateo
SOBRENOMEPedro
ASSINATURAPEDRO P M
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Toronto
ORCID0000-0001-9895-2904
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS11
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES38
TOTAL COMO AUTOR11
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2014
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H2

  • The acquisition of directionals in Q’anjob’al

    Open AccessPedro Mateo PedroARTICLEFirst Language2024

    This article evaluates the acquisition of directionals in Q’anjob’al, a Western Mayan language of Guatemala. The data come from a longitudinal study of two Q’anjob’al monolingual children of Santa Eulalia, Huehuetenango, Guatemala: Xhuw (1;9–2;5) and Xhim (2;3–3;5). The results show how these children acquire the morphological distribution of motion verbs and directionals in Q’anjob’al. They produce directionals parallel to motion verbs. Xhuw pro…

  • Introduction to the special issue on the acquisition of Mesoamerican languages

    Open AccessLourdes De León, Pedro Mateo PedroARTICLEFirst Language2024

  • Indeterminate pronouns in Kaqchikel

    Open AccessPhilip T Duncan, Harold Torrence et al.ARTICLELinguistic Variation2024Referências: 38

    This paper investigates the morphology, syntax, and semantics of five non-interrogative constructions that involve wh-expressions in Kaqchikel, a Mayan language of the K'ichean branch spoken in Guatemala. We focus on the properties of maximal free relative clauses, existential free relative clauses, ever free relative clauses, free choice items and negative indefinites. We show that the interpretive properties of these constructions are strikingl…

  • Adquisición de los clasificadores numerales en q’anjob’al

    Open AccessPedro Mateo PedroARTICLERevista Pueblos y fronteras digital2022

    En el presente estudio se discute la adquisición de los clasificadores numerales -eb’, -k’on y -wan en q’anjob’al evaluando datos de tres niños de las siguientes edades: Xhuw (1;9-3;0), Xhim (2;3-4;0) y Tum (2;7- 3;6). Los resultados muestran que en este rango de edades los niños comienzan a usar de forma gradual y esporádica estos clasificadores, aunque los errores de uso muestran que utilizan el sistema de clasificadores numerales de modo difer…

  • Atz’am k’ik’ atz’am

    Open AccessJustin Royer, Pedro Mateo Pedro et al.ARTICLETlalocan2022

    This article and text provide a new take on the San Mateo Ixtatán saltwater sources from the perspective of Xuwan, a San Mateo resident who for her entire life has been working in the extraction, production, and merchandising of atz’am k’ik’ atz’am ‘the black salt’, a culturally-valued good which forms a quintessential aspect of Chuj life and culture. In addition to recounting her experiences with black salt, Xuwan comments on several other aspec…

  • The acquisition of causatives in Q’anjob’al Maya

    Open AccessPedro Mateo PedroARTICLEFirst Language2021

    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 start producing morphological causatives around the age of 2 years. The marked difference in the age …

  • The crosslinguistic acquisition of sentence structure

    Open AccessBen Ambridge, Ramya Maitreyee et al.ARTICLECognition2020

    This preregistered study tested three theoretical proposals for how children form productive yet restricted linguistic generalizations, avoiding errors such as *The clown laughed the man, across three age groups (5-6 years, 9-10 years, adults) and five languages (English, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew and K'iche'). Participants rated, on a five-point scale, correct and ungrammatical sentences describing events of causation (e.g., *Someone laughed the m…

  • Mayan Language Acquisition

    Clifton Pye, Barbara Pfeiler et al.CHAPTERMayan Languages2017

    Research on the acquisition of the Mayan languages has a 45-year history, beginning in the late sixties with Brian Stross’s (1969) study of Tseltal child language and continuing into the seventies with Stephen H. Straight’s (1976) study of Yucatec children’s phonology and Pye’s (1979) study of K’iche’ children’s inflectional morphology. In the nineties, Penelope Brown, Lourdes de León, and Barbara Pfeiler began longitudinal studies documenting th…

  • La adquisición de la negación en tres idiomas mayas

    Open AccessClifton Pye, Barbara Pfeiler et al.ARTICLEEstudios de Cultura Maya2016Citada por: 1

    Presentamos los datos de las formas tempranas de negación en tres lenguas mayas (k’iche’, yucateco y q’anjob’al). Estas lenguas marcan diferentes contrastes entre los contextos de negación discursiva, oracional y existencial. La negación en estas lenguas también interactúa con el aspecto y la modalidad. Los niños que adquieren la lengua k’iche’ usan una forma interna de la negación a nivel oracional mientras que los niños que adquieren el yucatec…

  • Ergativity and the complexity of extraction

    Open AccessLauren Eby Clemens, Jessica Coon et al.ARTICLENatural Language and Linguistic…2015Citada por: 4Referências: 88

  • The role of case in A-bar extraction asymmetries

    Jessica Coon, Pedro Mateo Pedro et al.ARTICLELinguistic Variation2014Citada por: 33Referências: 68

    Many morphologically ergative languages display asymmetries in the extraction of core arguments: while absolutive arguments (transitive objects and intransitive subjects) extract freely, ergative arguments (transitive subjects) cannot. This falls under the label "syntactic ergativity" (see, e.g. Dixon 1972, 1994; Manning 1996; Polinsky to appear(b)). These extraction asymmetries are found in many languages of the Mayan family, where in order to e…