Changing language input following market integration in a Yucatec Mayan community.

ABSTRACT: Like many indigenous populations worldwide, Yucatec Maya communities are rapidly undergoing change as they become more connected with urban centers and access to formal education, wage labour, and market goods became more accessible to their inhabitants. However, little is known about how these changes affect children's language input. Here, we provide the first systematic assessment of the quantity, type, source, and language of the input received by 29 Yucatec Maya infants born six years apart in communities where increased contact with urban centres has resulted in a greater exposure to the dominant surrounding language, Spanish. Results show that infants from the second cohort received less directed input than infants in the first and, when directly addressed, most of their input was i

SUBMITTER: Padilla-Iglesias C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8216532 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature