Agreement in K’iche’ (Mayan): Reflections on Microvariation and Acquisi- tion
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
We explore plausible acquisition trajectories that give rise to microvariation in 3PL agreement realization in K’iche’ (Mayan). We report elicitation data with two speakers of the language. For one speaker, all inanimate 3PL arguments control agreement optionally. For another speaker, inanimate 3PL arguments base-generated in a specifier position control agreement obligatorily, while those base-generated in complement position control agreement optionally. Taking England (2011)’s corpus study of the language as a starting point, we show how the interplay of universal and non-universal factors during acquisition might give rise to these different grammars.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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