Morphological and conceptual influences on the real-time comprehension of optional plural marked sentences in Yucatec Maya.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Psycholinguistic research often focuses on Indo-European and other commonly studied major languages, while typologically diverse languages remain understudied. In this paper, we examine the morphological and conceptual influences on the real-time comprehension of optional plural-marked sentences in Yucatec Maya, an indigenous language of Mexico with a less commonly studied optional plural marking system.

Methods

Fifty-one speakers of Yucatec Maya participated in a picture-sentence matching experiment carried out in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Pictures of one, two, or seven humans or animals depicting an intransitive action (conceptual number) were paired with auditorily presented sentences that had no plural marking, one plural, or two plurals (morphologica

SUBMITTER: Butler LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10480837 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature