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Aug 2026
Heritage bilingualism and language processing disparities: Spanish influence on Kaqchikel Mayan word production and sentence structures
Abstract This study examined the enduring influence of societal Spanish dominance on the indigenous Kaqchikel Mayan heritage language through three experiments with native Kaqchikel speakers. The experiments assessed word production and the processing of transitive and interrogative sentences in both Kaqchikel and Span...
K. Tamaoka, Kyoko Hayakawa, Michael P. Mansbridge et al.
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