Using cognitive measures from linguistic relativity research to assess thinking in Yucatec Maya-Spanish bilingual children

IF 1.2 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS First Language Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI:10.1177/01427237241253315
Jaime Inocencio Chi Pech
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This article uses cognitive measures previously developed within linguistic relativity research to explore the thinking patterns of Yucatec Maya-Spanish bilingual children in the Yucatan peninsula. These measures were designed to detect cognitive patterns associated with specific language patterns. Here, these measures are used to test whether 12 Yucatec Maya-Spanish bilingual children aged 9–11 years old differ cognitively from a similar sample of monolingual Maya children (nine Yucatec Maya-speaking and three Spanish-speaking). The study assesses cognitive associations for two language domains: number marking, a structure-based contrast, and spatial frames of reference, a usage-based contrast. For both number marking and spatial frames of reference, both bilingual and monolingual children provided cognitive responses more like Yucatec Maya monolingual speakers than like Spanish monolinguals. The study also assessed whether the results were affected by factors that have emerged in other studies of bilingual cognition: language status, social community, and language of assessment (‘language mode’). For number marking, there was an effect of the language of assessment, but not of social community or language status. For spatial frames of reference, there were effects of social community and language status but not of the language of assessment. Overall, the results suggest that Yucatec Maya's cognitive habits may continue for some time during the shift from Yucatec Maya monolingualism to bilingualism but with some sensitivity to these other factors. This study offers a positive outlook for efforts to maintain and revitalize the Yucatec Maya language in the Yucatan peninsula.
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利用语言相对论研究中的认知测量方法评估尤卡泰克玛雅-西班牙语双语儿童的思维能力
本文利用以前在语言相对论研究中开发的认知测量方法,探讨尤卡坦半岛尤卡坦玛雅-西班牙语双语儿童的思维模式。这些测量方法旨在检测与特定语言模式相关的认知模式。在本研究中,我们使用这些测量方法来检验 12 名 9-11 岁的尤卡泰克玛雅-西班牙语双语儿童在认知方面是否与单语玛雅儿童(9 名尤卡泰克玛雅儿童和 3 名西班牙语儿童)存在差异。研究评估了两个语言领域的认知关联:数字标记(一种基于结构的对比)和空间参照框架(一种基于用法的对比)。对于数字标记和空间参照系,双语和单语儿童的认知反应都更像尤卡特克玛雅语单语儿童,而不是西班牙语单语儿童。研究还评估了结果是否受到其他双语认知研究中出现的因素的影响:语言地位、社会群体和评估语言("语言模式")。在数字标记方面,评估语言有影响,但社会群体或语言地位没有影响。在空间参照系方面,社会群体和语言地位有影响,但评估语言没有影响。总之,研究结果表明,尤卡特克玛雅人的认知习惯在从尤卡特克玛雅单语向双语转变的过程中可能会持续一段时间,但对这些其他因素有一定的敏感性。这项研究为在尤卡坦半岛保持和振兴尤卡坦玛雅语的努力提供了一个积极的前景。
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First Language
First Language Multiple-
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期刊介绍: First Language is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes the highest quality original research in child language acquisition. Child language research is multidisciplinary and this is reflected in the contents of the journal: research from diverse theoretical and methodological traditions is welcome. Authors from a wide range of disciplines - including psychology, linguistics, anthropology, cognitive science, neuroscience, communication, sociology and education - are regularly represented in our pages. Empirical papers range from individual case studies, through experiments, observational/ naturalistic, analyses of CHILDES corpora, to parental surveys.
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