Eskimo‐Aleut Languages

Johns, Alana

doi:10.1111/j.1749-818x.2010.00239.x

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“…Both have been considered agglutinative with words formed by a sequence of morphemes representing for the most part different grammatical categories. (Inuktitut: Fortescue 2017a;Johns 2010. Quechua: Cerrón-Palomino 1988 although in Quechua some morphemes may be syncretic.…”

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“…We want to contribute to this discussion by focusing on morphology, which has been acknowledged to play a role (e.g., Büring 2010, p. 177) but has been comparatively less studied (e.g., Kügler and Calhoun 2020). We begin our exploration with the analysis of two indigenous languages of the Americas, Quechua and Inuktitut, which have been described as having a very limited use of intonation (Johns 2010;Shokeir 2009, for Inuktitut;Sánchez 2010, for Quechua). This limited use of intonation appears to characterize also the second languages (Spanish and English, respectively) spoken by L1 Quechua and Inuktitut speakers, and may be a general characteristic of the L2 spoken by speakers of indigenous languages, at least in North America (Newmark et al 2016).…”

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The Role of Prosody and Morphology in the Mapping of Information Structure onto Syntax

Colantoni

Sánchez

2021

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The mapping of information structure onto morphology or intonation varies greatly crosslinguistically. Agglutinative languages, like Inuktitut or Quechua, have a rich morphological layer onto which discourse-level features are mapped but a limited use of intonation. Instead, English or Spanish lack grammaticalized morphemes that convey discourse-level information but use intonation to a relatively large extent. We propose that the difference found in these two pairs of languages follows from a division of labor across language modules, such that two extreme values of the continuum of possible interactions across modules are available as well as combinations of morphological and intonational markers. At one extreme, in languages such as Inuktitut and Quechua, a rich set of morphemes with scope over constituents convey sentence-level and discourse-level distinctions, making the alignment of intonational patterns and information structure apparently redundant. At the other extreme, as in English and to some extent Spanish, a series of consistent alignments of PF and syntactic structure are required to distinguish sentence types and to determine the information value of a constituent. This results in a complementary distribution of morphology and intonation in these languages. In contact situations, overlap between patterns of module interaction are attested. Evidence from Quechua–Spanish and Inuktitut–English bilinguals supports a bidirectionality of crosslinguistic influence; intonational patterns emerge in non-intonational languages to distinguish sentence types, whereas morphemes or discourse particles emerge in intonational languages to mark discourse-level features.

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The Role of Prosody and Morphology in the Mapping of Information Structure onto Syntax

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2021

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“…As opposed to English, Inuktitut is an agglutinative and polysynthetic language (Johns 2010;Fortescue 2017) that marks sentence type with verb suffixes. The verb has ten moods (Dorais 2010), among which we find the Declarative, Indicative, Interrogative, and Imperative-Optative.…”

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Perception and Production of Sentence Types by Inuktitut-English Bilinguals

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We explore the perception and production of English statements, absolute yes-no questions, and declarative questions by Inuktitut-English sequential bilinguals. Inuktitut does not mark stress, and intonation is used as a cue for phrasing, while statements and questions are morphologically marked by a suffix added to the verbal root. Conversely, English absolute questions are both prosodically and syntactically marked, whereas the difference between statements and declarative questions is prosodic. To determine the degree of crosslinguistic influence (CLI) and whether CLI is more prevalent in tasks that require access to contextual information, bilinguals and controls performed three perception and two production tasks, with varying degrees of context. Results showed that bilinguals did not differ from controls in their perception of low-pass filtered utterances but diverged in contextualized tasks. In production, bilinguals, as opposed to controls, displayed a reduced use of pitch in the first pitch accent. In a discourse-completion task, they also diverged from controls in the number of non-target-like realizations, particularly in declarative question contexts. These findings demonstrate patterns of prosodic and morphosyntactic CLI and highlight the importance of incorporating contextual information in prosodic studies. Moreover, we show that the absence of tonal variations can be transferred in a stable language contact situation. Finally, the results indicate that comprehension may be hindered for this group of bilinguals when sentence type is not redundantly marked.

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The mestizo speech

Colantoni

2016

Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

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The goal of this chapter is to reflect on methodological practices in second language (L2) speech concerning participant selection and task choices. To frame the discussion, I turn to two central issues in cultural studies: the concept of mestizaje and the connection between speech and writing. First, drawing from research on L2 acquisition of intonation, I argue for the need of problematizing multilingual identities to include populations that currently do not fit our selection criteria. Secondly, I suggest that the discussion about the centrality of alphabetic writing in Western societies can inform research on the role of reading and writing in L2 and bilingual speech.

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Eskimo‐Aleut Languages

Cited by 5 publications

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The Role of Prosody and Morphology in the Mapping of Information Structure onto Syntax

The Role of Prosody and Morphology in the Mapping of Information Structure onto Syntax

Perception and Production of Sentence Types by Inuktitut-English Bilinguals

The mestizo speech

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