| FN-50091-11 | Research Programs: Dynamic Language Infrastructure-Documenting Endangered Languages - Fellowships | Susan E. Kalt | Documenting Children's Cuzco Quechua in Bolivia and Peru | 9/1/2011 - 8/31/2012 | $50,400.00 | Susan | E. | Kalt | | | | Roxbury Community College | Roxbury | MA | 02120-3423 | USA | 2011 | Linguistics | Dynamic Language Infrastructure-Documenting Endangered Languages - Fellowships | Research Programs | 50400 | 0 | 50400 | 0 |
The main goal of this study is to document children's comprehension and production of Quechua (quz) in rural highland Bolivia and Peru, where a continuum of permeation from Spanish can be observed. The secondary goal is to document variation within Cuzco-Collao Quechua, giving special attention to the Chuquisaca dialect spoken in South Bolivia. Despite the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of speakers of Cuzco-Collao Quechua, only a handful of studies of Andean children's grammar focus on their L1 grammar, and virtually all of these focus on Peruvian children, leaving a serious gap in documentation of indigenous children's language. (Edited by staff) |