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Pye, C. 2002. Mayan Morphosyntax. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 26.1-19.


Pye, C. 2002. The Acquisition of Mayan Morphosyntax. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 26.19-38.


Pye, C. 2001. The Acquisition of Finiteness in K’iche’ Maya. BUCLD 25: Proceedings of the 25th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, pp. 645-656. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.


Pye, C. 2001. La adquisición de la morfología verbal en el maya k’iche. In Cecilia Rojas & Lourdes de León (eds.), Procedimientos del IV Encuentro sobre Adquisición del Lenguaje. Mexico.


Pye, C., Aoki, T., and Morikawa, H. 2000. Verb acquisition in English and Japanese., in M. M. T. Henderson (ed), Proceedings of the 1999 Mid-America Linguistics Conference. Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas.


D. Ingram and C. Pye 1998. The acquisition of ergativity. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Edited by Morton A. Gernsbacher & Sharon J. Derry, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, N.J. 520-524.


Loeb, D.F., Pye, C., Richardson, L. Z., & Redmond, S. 1998. Causative alternations of children with specific language impairment. J. of Speech-Language-Hearing Research 41:1103-1114.


Pye, C. & Loeb, D.F. 1998. Experimenting with the Causative Alternation. Unpublished ms. The University of Kansas.


Pye, C. 1998. Zoque verb compounds. Proceedings of the 1997 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, Columbia, Missouri. 358-365.


Loeb, D.F., Pye, C., Redmond, S., & Richardson, L. Z. 1996. Eliciting Verbs from children with specific language impairment. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 5.17-30.


Pye, C. 1996. K’iche’ Maya verbs of breaking and cutting. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 21.87-98.


Pye, C. and Pao, Y. Y. 1996. Making the cut. In K. Booker, F. Ingemann & F. Mc Laughlin (Eds.), The Proceedings of the 1994 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.


Pye, C., Loeb, D. F., Pao, Y. Y. 1996. The Acquisition of Breaking and Cutting. In E. V. Clark (Ed.), The Proceedings of the Twenty-seventh Annual Child Language Research Forum, 27.227-236. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information.


Pye, C., Loeb, D. F., Redmond, S. & Richardson, L. Z. 1995. When Do Children Acquire Verbs? In E. V. Clark (Ed.), The Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Annual Child Language Research Forum, pp. 60-70. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information.


Pye, C. 1993. A Cross-Linguistic Approach to the Causative Alternation, in Yonata Levy (Ed.), Other Children, Other Languages, pp. 243-263. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.


Ingram, D. & Pye, C. 1993. The acquisition of miniature languages: The search for a new paradigm. International Journal of Psycholinguistics 9.147-158.


Pye, C., Cheung, H., & Kemper, S. 1992. Island Constraints at Eighty, in H. Goodluck & M. Rochemont (Eds.), Island Constraints: Theory, Acquisition and Processing. Pp. 351-372. Dordrecht: Kluwer.


Pye, C. 1992. Language Loss in the Chilcotin, in Allan R. Taylor (Ed.), International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Special Issue 93.75-86.


Pye, C. 1991. Acquiring Lexical Constraints on Causatives in K'iche' Maya, Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, Stanford, 30.96-103.


Pye, C. 1991. The Acquisition of K'iche' (Maya), (1991), in Dan Isaac Slobin (Ed.), The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition,Vol. 3, pp. 221-308. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.


Pye, C. 1990. The Acquisition of Ergative Languages, Linguistics 28.1291-1330.


Pye, C. 1991. Learning to Constrain Verb Transitivity. in F. Ingemann (Ed.), 1990 Mid-America Linguistics Conference Papers (1991), 294-304. Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas.


Pye, C. 1990. The Acquisition of Vo Movement, Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, Stanford, 29.96-103.


Pye, C. 1990. Acquisition of Xo Movement, Working Papers in Language Development, University of Kansas, 5.167-185.


Pye, C. & Rekart, D. 1990. La Adquisición del K'iche' in Nora C. England & Stephen R. Elliott (Eds.), Lecturas sobre la Lingüistica Maya, pp. 115-126. La Antigua, Guatemala: Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica.


Pye, C. 1989. The Focus Antipassive in Quiché Mayan, Kansas University Working Papers in Linguistics.


Pye, C. & Quixtan Poz, P. 1989. Why Functionalism won't Function: The Acquisition of Passives and Antipassives in K'iche' Mayan, Working Papers in Language Development, 4.39-53. The Child Language Program, University of Kansas. (co-author Pedro Quixtan Poz).


Pye, C. & Quixtan Poz, P. 1988. Precocious Passives (and Antipassives) in Quiché Mayan, Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, Stanford, 27.71-80.


Pye, C., Wilcox, K. A. & Siren, K. A. 1988. Refining Transcriptions: The Significance of Transcriber ‘Errors’, Journal of Child Language 15.17-37.


Pye, C. & Ingram, D. 1988. Automating the Analysis of Child Phonology, Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 2.115-137.


Pye, C. 1988. Setting the Ergative Parameter, in M. M. T. Henderson (Ed), 1987 Mid-America Linguistics Conference Papers, pp. 239-251. Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas.


Pye, C. 1987. The Pye Analysis of Language, Working Papers in Language Development 3.1-37. The Child Language Program, University of Kansas.


Pye, C. 1988. Towards an Anthropology of Language Acquisition, in Ben G. Blount (Ed.), Language Sciences 10.123-146.


Pye, C. To appear. Conversation with Quiché Children, in Louanna Furbee (Ed.), Mayan Text and Discourse, Mayan Texts 4, Native American Texts Series. Berlin: Mouton.


Pye, C. 1986. An Ethnography of Mayan Speech to Children. Working Papers in Child Language 1:30-58. The Child Language Program, University of Kansas.


Pye, C., Ingram, D. & List, H. 1987. A Comparison of Initial Consonant Acquisition in English and Quiché, in Keith Nelson and Anne van Kleeck (Eds.), Children's Language, Vol. 6, pp. 175-190. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.


Pye, C. 1986. One Lexicon or Two?: An alternative interpretation of early bilingual speech The Journal of Child Language 13:591-593.


Pye, C. 1985. The Acquisition of Transitivity in Quiché Mayan, Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, Stanford, 24:115-22.


Pye, C. 1986. Quiché Mayan Speech to Children, The Journal of Child Language 13:85-100.


Bernstein Ratner, N. & Pye, C. 1984. Higher Pitch in BT is not Universal: Acoustic Evidence from Quiché Mayan, The Journal of Child Language 11:515-522.


Pye, C. 1983. Mayan Telegraphese: Intonational Determinants of Inflectional Development in Quiché Mayan, Language 59:583-604.

Pye, C. 1982. Mayan Telegraphese: Stage I Speech in Quiché Mayan in Proceedings of the Second International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Vol. I, Carolyn Echols Johnson and Carol Larson Thew (Eds.), Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, pp. 201-19.


Pye, C. 1980. Person Marker Acquisition in Quiché Mayan, Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, Stanford, 19:53-9.


Pye, C. 1979. The Acquisition of Quiché (Mayan), Current Anthropology 20:459-60.