This article presents preliminary data of the research project on the Stress Patterns found in Chachapoyas Quechua and its Implications for the Reconstruction of Protoquechua. This is the thesis project for a PhD degree in Linguistics at the National University of San Marcos. The state of the art around the accent in protoquechua has not offered so far a proposal on how their accent patterns would have been like (Cf. Torero, 1964, Parker, 2013, Cerrón-Palomino, 2003). The hy- pothesis of our project is that the accentual patterns of Chachapoyas Quechua maintains its prosodic aspect from the protoquechua and not from the Chacha language studied by Taylor (2000) and Valqui & Zie-mendorff (2016). In this article, unpublished data of acoustic charac- teristics of this variety that were collected in towns of the provinces of Chachapoyas and Luya in the department of Amazonas are presente...

This paper discusses on the emergence of long and short monophthongized vowels in a number of suffixes of the Quechua variety spoken in Chachapoyas. In particular, vowel monophthongization occurs within the possessive suffixes that mark first and second person in this Quechua variety. Previous studies have explained that alternations between [i]/[i:] and [e]/[e:] are the result of variations in the quality of the initial segment /-y/ that appears in both first and second person possessive suffixes. Similarly, previous research has described the alternation between short and long vowel segments (i.e. [i]/[i:] and [e]/[e:]) as the outcome of stress variation. However, recent acoustic evidence suggests that the initial segment of both possessive suffixes is not /-y/ but a subespecified coronal segment. Moreover, this evidence allows to explain the alternation between short and long vowels a...

This paper discusses an experience in language documentation in the Peruvian Amazon in order to reflect on some methodological dimensions that may extend to the linguistic research. The aim of this paper is to show that methodologies and the use of computer programs in language documentation can improve the analysis in any field of linguistics.

In this article, the author questions the reading test standardization like the case of theInternational Programme Student Assessment. With this purpose, its analized about reading assessment model PISA, it is reflexed about of literacy and it is discussed through neutrality of the linguistic code.

This paper investigates the inclusion of the intercultural education in the urban school. To achieve this goal, we analyze the school’s official documents, the conception about interculturality from the teachers and parents, and the school practice. The observation reports that intercultural education has not been included into the urban school, because there is not any consistent relationship among the elements of this educational proposal.

This paper uses three different approaches (Generative phonology, Nonlinear phonology and Optimality Theory) in order to describe and explain a phonological process of assimilation called labialization in Nomatsiguenga, that only happens when a labial consonant appears before the central vowel [i]. Standard generative phonology characterized assimilation in terms of features copying. In Nonlinear approach, in contrast, assimilation is characterized as the association of features of segment A to a neighboring segment B. Finally, in Optimality Theory, assimilation is characterized as Markedness constraint called AGREE(x).

El objetivo del artículo es dar cuenta del proceso de gramaticalización del pronombre personal tónico usted empleado como el clítico -ste en el castellano del sur del departamento de Amazonas (Perú). De acuerdo con el análisis semántico, morfosintáctico y fonológico, este proceso de gramaticalización ha dado origen a un clítico que aporta el sentido de ‘distanciamiento o formalidad’ entre los interlocutores de un evento discursivo. La conclusión principal reporta que el clítico -ste, producto de la gramaticalización del pronombre usted, caracteriza una variedad del castellano andino norperuano, atestiguado también en las provincias andinas de La Libertad, algunas provincias de Cajamarca y Áncash, y en el Bajo Piura (Andrade, 2016, 2018, 2019).

Este artículo trata sobre la relación entre la formaciónsuperior universitaria y los pueblos indígenas amazónicosdel Perú. Principalmente, aborda los desafíos y logros entorno al proceso de estructuración de esta relación. Paraello, se sirve de la experiencia del proyecto de formaciónde docentes en Educación Intercultural Bilingüe (EIB) parapueblos de la selva central desarrollado por la UniversidadNacional Mayor de San Marcos y la Asociación Regional dePueblos Indígenas de la Selva Central de 2005 a 2014.

Las hablas del quechua central se configuran en toda una galaxia dialectal haciendo difícil y compleja la tarea de delimitar entre una y otra frontera, la distribución de sus isoglosas, percibidas como discontinuas y heterogéneas. El propósito central en la presente investigación es el estudio dialectológico del quechua que sobrevive en el poblado de Picoy (distrito de Santa Leonor, provincia de Huara, departamento de Lima), donde son escasos los hombres y mujeres que se mantienen activos. Interesa documentar el léxico, los aspectos fonético-fonológicos, morfológicos y relatos orales, antes de su desaparición. Para explicar e interpretar los datos se aplicará el enfoque de la lingüística cognitiva.