Presentations
Pye, C. 2023. Documenting the Diversity of Child Languages. International Conference on Local Languages (ICLL) 2023. Universitas Udayana, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, February 17, 2023.
Pye, C. 2022. Where Do We Go from Here? Documenting Child Language. Language Documenting and Archiving Conference. Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin, October 3, 2022.
Pye, C. 2022. The Acquisition of the Intransitive Verb Complex in Mam: A Comparative Mayan Study. Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop. The Center for The Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution and The Department of Comparative Language Science. The University of Zurich, Switzerland, September 12, 2022.
Pye, C. 2022. Una Conversación entre Padre e Hijo. Workshop on Interaction and Multimodality in Language Acquisition. Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. June 22, 2022.
Pye, C. 2022. Sketching Infant Grammars. Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 9, 2022.
Pye, C. and S. Berthiaume. 2022. The Development of Glottal Gestures in Xi’iùy (Northern Pame). The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Annual Meeting, virtual, January 23, 2022.
Pye, C. 2021. Don’t Forget the Kids: Documenting the Acquisition of Endangered Languages. The 2nd International Virtual Seminar on Endangered Languages and Linguistics. Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia. October 25, 2021.
Berthiaume, S. and C. Pye. 2021. Entre dos mundos: Adquisición y adaptación del pame entre niños y niñas. Seminario Internacional en Lingüística Aplicada 2021 (virtual), the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla and the Universidad Intercultural del Estado de Puebla, Mexico. July 7, 2021.
Pye, C. and S. Berthiaume. 2021. An overview of vowel acquisition in Northern Pame (Xi'iuy). The International Child Phonology Conference 2021 (virtual), University of Alberta, Canada. June 18, 2021.
Pye, C. 2020. Documentation as Acquisition Theory. The Linguistic Society of America, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 4, 2020.
Pye, C. and S. Berthiaume. 2020. The Emergence of Northern Pame (Xi’iuy) Morphology among Children. The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 4, 2020.
Pye, C., S. Berthiaume and F. Baltazar Hernández. 2019. Investigando la adquisición de lenguas indígenas de México: El caso de pame norte (xi’iuy). Instituto de Investigaciones Humanísticas, La Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, June 17, 2019.
Pye, C. 2019. La documentación del lenguaje como teoría de la adquisición (The documentation of language as acquisition theory). Plenary Address, XX Encuentro de Adquisición del Lenguaje, Casa Chata, El Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, Mexico City, Mexico, May 2, 2019.
Pye, C. and L. de León. 2019. Seminario Temático de Adquisición del Lenguaje: Teorías, Métodos y Análisis. El Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, Mexico City, Mexico, April 26-30, 2019.
Pye, C. S. Berthiaume and B. Pfeiler. 2019. The Acquisition of Noun Infection in Northern Pame (Xi’iuy). The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Annual Meeting, New York City, January 4, 2019.
Pye, C., S. Berthiaume and B. Pfeiler. 2018. The Vocabulary of Northern Pame Speaking Children. XIX Encuentro de Adquisición del Lenguaje, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Querétaro, México, April 25-27, 2018.
Pye, C. and S. Berthiaume. 2017. Developing Lexical Production in Xi’iuy (Northern Pame). Eighth Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America, the University of Texas at Austin, October 26-28, 2017.
Pfeiler, B. and C. Pye. 2017. Variation at the Left Edge: Child Ergative Production in Teenek and Yucatec Maya. Many Paths to Language (MPaL), Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, October 6-8, 2017.
Pye, C. and Hiba E. Gharib. 2017. Clitics in Sorani Kurdish. Linguistics 50th Anniversary Celebration. The University of Kansas, September 16, 2017.
Clifton Pye and Barbara B. Pfeiler. 2017. La adquisición de sufijos verbales en el teenek de San Luis Potosí [The acquisition of verbal suffixes in San Luis Potosí Teenek]. XVIII Encuentro de Adquisición. UNAM, CEPHCIS, Mérida, Yucatán, March 16, 2017.
Pye, C. 2016. The Acquisition of Mayan Languages. The 2016 Waggoner Research Colloquium, Kansas University Center for Latin American Studies. November 17, 2016.
Pye, C. 2016. The Acquisition of “Nominative” Agreement. Linguistics Department colloquy. The University of Kansas, November 10, 2016.
Pye, C. 2016. The Acquisition of Extended Ergativity. Child Language proseminar. The University of Kansas, September 28, 2016.
Pye, C. 2016. A Metaphorical Approach to Meaning. Linguistic Society of Indonesia International Conference 2016 (Kongres Internasional Masyarakat Linguistik Indonesia/KIMLI 2016), Universitas Udayana. Bali, Indonesia, August 27, 2016.
Pye, C. and Pfeiler, B. 2015. La Adquisición del Protomaya [The Acquisition of Protomaya]. II Mesa Redonda del Mayab: La Ciencia y las Artes Entre los Mayas. Mérida, Yucatán.
Pye, C. 2015. The Acquisition of Negation in Mam and K’iche’ Maya. Linguistics Society of America annual meeting, Portland, OR, January 9, 2015.
Pfeiler B., Curiel, A. and Pye, C. 2015. The Acquisition of Negation in Yucatec and Tojol-ab’al. Linguistics Society of America annual meeting, Portland, OR, January 9, 2015.
Pye, C. & Barbara Pfeiler. 2014. La adquisición de lenguas mayas ante la variación individual. Encuentro sobre diferencias individuales en la adquisición del lenguaje. Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, October 9, 2014.
Ingram, D. & Pye, C. 2014. The comparison of the effects of word complexity on the acquisition of consonant correctness in Spanish and K’iche’. Linguistic Association of the Southwest XLIII (LASSO), San Diego, CA, September 20, 2014.
Pye, C. 2014. Non-Cyclic Negation in the Mayan Languages. The Linguistic Cycle Workshop II, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, April 26, 2014
Pye, C. & Barbara Pfeiler. 2013. The status and acquisition of pronominal clitics in five Mayan languages. Sixth Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America, the University of Texas at Austin, October 24-26, 2013.
Pye, C. 2013. The acquisition of agreement. Child Language proseminar. The University of Kansas, October 9, 2013.
Pye, C. 2013. The acquisition of agreement. Linguistics Department colloquy. The University of Kansas, September 19, 2013.
Pye, C. 2013. El método comparativo en la investigación de la adquisición de las lenguas mayas. 9° Congreso Internacional de Mayistas, Centro de Convenciones Campeche XXI, Campeche, Mexico, June 28, 2013.
Pye, C. 2013. Reconstructing Negation in the Greater Tzeltalan Mayan Languages. Linguistics Society of America annual meeting, Boston, January 3, 2013.
Pye, C. 2012. La adquisición de la fonología del teenek de San Luis Potosí. 14° Encuentro de Adquisición del Lenguaje. El Colegio de México, Mexico City. October 19, 2012.
Pye, C. & Barbara Pfeiler. 2012. The Acquisition of Pronominal Clitics in Teenek Maya (hua). Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition-North America 5, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. Poster, October 12, 2012.
Pfeiler, B. & Pye, C. 2012. The Acquisition of Pronominal Clitics in Teenek (Wastek). 54th International Congress of Americanists, Vienna, Austria, July 16, 2012.
Pye, C. 2012. Mass Extinction. Child Language Proseminar. The University of Kansas, January 26, 2012.
Pye, C. 2012. The Acquisition of Subject Properties in Mam Maya in the symposium on Psycholinguistic Research on Less-Studied Languages. Linguistics Society of America annual meeting, Portland, Oregon, January 7, 2012.
Pye, C. 2011. A Tale of Two Mam Families: Linguistic Processes of Language Loss. The Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica. October 6-8, Austin, TX.
Pye, C. 2010. The Acquisition of Mam. Workshop on Ergativity. Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, October 31-November 1, 2010. Leipzig, Germany.
Pye, C. 2010. The Acquisition of Mam. Child Language Proseminar. The University of Kansas, September 8, 2010.
Pye, C. 2010. Mayan Stative Predication. Formal Approaches to Mayan Linguistics. April 23, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Pye, C., Pfeiler, B. & Mateo Pedro, P. 2010. The Acquisition of Negation in three Mayan languages. Linguistics Colloquy, University of Kansas, February 18, 2010.
Pye, C., Pfeiler, B. & Mateo Pedro, P. 2009. The Acquisition of Negation in three Mayan languages. Symposium presented at the Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica. October 30, Austin, TX.
Pye, C. 2009. Five Mayan Tweets: Mayan Language Acquisition Research. Child Language Proseminar. The University of Kansas, September 16, 2009.
Pye, C. 2008. D’où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous? Child Language Proseminar. The University of Kansas, September 3, 2008.
Pye, C., Pfeiler, B., Carrillo Carreón, C. & Mateo, P. 2008. The acquisition of verb inflections in five Mayan languages. International Association for the Study of Child Language, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. July 28-August 1, 2008.
Pye, C. 2008. Cycles of Complementation in the Mayan Languages. Linguistic Cycles Workshop, Arizona State University, April 26, 2008.
Pye, C. 2008. Adventures in the search for universal grammar: Three Mayan languages in Mexico and Guatemala. Latin American Studies Merienda, The University of Kansas, February 28, 2008.
Pye, C. 2008. Adventures in the search for universal grammar: Three Mayan languages in Mexico and Guatemala. Hall Center Latin American Seminar, The University of Kansas, February 22, 2008.
Pye, C., Pfeiler, B. & Mateo, P. 2008. The acquisition of status suffixes in three Mayan languages. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America meetings, Chicago, January 3, 2008.
Pye, C. & Mateo, P. 2007. The acquisition of verb complexes in K’iche’ and Q’anjob’al. Paper presented at the Mid-America Linguistics Conference, The University of Kansas, October 28, 2007.
Pye, C., Mateo, P.,Gutiérrez, P., López R., A. & Pfeiler, B. 2007. Adquisición de verbos intransitivos en cinco idiomas Mayas. Séptimo Congreso Internacional de Mayistas, Mérida, Yucatán, July 8, 2007.
Pye, C., Pedro Mateo, Bárbara Pfeiler, Ana López, Pedro Gutiérrez, Donald Stengel and CharlesPye. 2006. Adquisición de la Fonología en Cinco Idiomas Mayas. IX Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Hermosillo, Mexico. November 16, 2006.
Pye, C., Mateo, Pedro and Pfeiler, Barbara. 2006. Child Phonologies in Five Mayan Languages. Mid-America Linguistics Conference, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. October 28, 2006.
Pye, C., Mateo, Pedro and Pfeiler, Barbara. 2006. Child Phonologies in Five Mayan Languages. Linguistics Colloquy, The University of Kansas. September 11, 2006.
Pye, C., Mateo, Pedro and Pfeiler, Barbara. 2006. Child Phonologies in Five Mayan Languages. Child Language Proseminar, The University of Kansas. September 6, 2006.
Pye, C. 2006. Workshop on the Acquisition of Mesoamerican Languages. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social. January 16-18, Mexico City.
Pye, C. 2005. The Comparative Method. Experimental Psych Proseminar, The University of Kansas. November 17, 2005.
Pye, C. & Mateo, P. 2005. A comparative study of ergative acquisition in two Mayan languages. Paper presented at the Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica. October 28, Austin, TX.
de León, L., Pfeiler, B.,Pye C., Brown, P. & Mateo, P. 2005. Roots or edges?: A comparative study of Mayan children’s early verb forms. Symposium presented at the International Congress for the Study of Child Language. July, Berlin, Germany.
Pye, C. 2005. An Introduction to the Comparative Method. Child Language Proseminar, The University of Kansas. January 27, 2005.
Pye, C. 2005. The Comparative Context for Mayan Status Suffix Acquisition. LSA/Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Oakland, CA. January 8, 2005.
Pye, C. 2004. The genetic matrix for language acquisition studies. Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, January 11, 2004, Boston, MA.
Pye, C. 2003. The genetic matrix of Mayan three-place predicates and their acquisition in K’iche’ Mayan. Child Language Proseminar, September 17, 2003.
Pye, C. 2003. The genetic matrix of Mayan three-place predicates and their acquisition in K’iche’ Mayan. Workshop on The Linguistic Encoding of Three-Participant Events: Crosslinguistic and Developmental Perspectives. May 14-16 2003. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Pye, C. 2003. The acquisition of agreement in Maya. Child Language Proseminar.
Pye, C. 2003. Explaining ergativity: Structural accounts of Mayan ergativity. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 3, 2003, Atlanta, Georgia.
Pye, C. 2002. The acquisition of agreement in K’iche’ Maya. Symposium on the acquisition of agreement in the Mayan languages. 2002 joint conference of the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD) and the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), July 16, 2002 in Madison, WI.
Pye, C. 2001. The acquisition of Mayan agreement. Child Language Proseminar, University of Kansas, November 28, 2001.
Pye, C. 2001. Mayan morphosyntax. Linguistics Colloquy, University of Kansas, November 15, 2001.
Pye, C. 2001. El código minimál. V Encuentro Sobre Adquisición del Lenguaje, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, October 20-21, 2001.
Pye, C. 2001. Adquisición de la morfologia. II Seminario sobre Adqusición de Lengua Indígena. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social del Sureste, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, July 17-20, 2001.
Pye, C. 2001. How Things Break. Invited presentation at The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, April 11, 2001.
Pye, C. 2001. Modeling Finiteness in K’iche’ Maya. Invited presentation at The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, April 19, 2001
Loeb, Diane Frome, Jennifer Scott & C.Pye. Nov. 2000. Verb meaning in children with and without language impairment. Poster presented at ASHA Convention, Washington, D.C.
Pye, C. 2000. The early expression of finiteness in K’iche’ Maya. Boston University Conference on Language Development, November 3, 2000.
Pye, C. 2000. I Seminario sobre Adqusición de Lengua Indígena. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social del Sureste, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, June 26-29, 2000.
Pye, C. 2000. La adquisición de la morfología verbal en el maya k’iche. Keynote speech. IV Encuentro sobre Adquisición del Lenguaje. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social del Sureste, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, June 23, 2000.
Pye, C. 2000. Native American languages. Indigenous Nations Studies 803. University of Kansas, February 29 and March 7, 2000.
Pye, C. 2000. The origins of Mesoamerican writing. Anthropology 507: The Ancient Maya. University of Kansas, February 4, 2000.
Pye, C. 2000. Language Acquisition—A re-examination of the data. Linguistics Colloquy, University of Kansas, January 31, 2000.
Brackenbury, T. &Pye, C. 1999. Where’s the semantic sense in preschool language testing? American Speech Language Hearing Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, November 18, 1999.
Pye, C., Aoki, T., and Morikawa, H. 1999. Verb acquisition in English and Japanese. Mid-America Linguistics Conference, University of Kansas, October 15, 1999.
Pye, C. 1999. Fixing children’s verb meanings. Child Language Proseminar, University of Kansas, September 1, 1999.
Pye, C. 1999. Native American languages. HNRS 492 lecture, University of Kansas, April 6, 1999.
Pye, C. 1999. Language as a mathematical object. University of Dallas, TX. March 26, 1999.
Pye, C. 1999. Language loss. Native American Training Program in Communication Disorders, University of Kansas, March 9, 1999.
Pye, C. 1999. Computer parsers. HNRS 492 lecture, University of Kansas, March 2, 1999.
Pye, C. 1998. Language acquisition in the field: Documenting a dying language. Child Language Proseminar, University of Kansas, September 1998.
Ingram, D. and Pye, C. 1998. The acquisition of ergativity. Cognitive Science Conference, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, August 1, 1998.
Pye, C. 1998. The identification problem in language acquisition. Child Language Proseminar, University of Kansas, February 1998.
Pye, C. 1998. Constraining Zoque verb compounds. Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas annual meeting, New York, January 9, 1998.
Pye, C. 1997. The search for causality in the acquisition of verbs. American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C., November 22, 1997.
Loeb, D. & C.Pye. 1997. Semantic verb types of children with specific language impairment. Poster presentation. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association annual meeting, Boston, November 20, 1997.
Loeb, D. & C.Pye. 1997. Syntactic verb types of children with specific language impairment. Poster presentation. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association annual meeting, Boston, November 20, 1997.
Pye, C. 1997. Zoque verb compounds. Mid-America Linguistics Conference, October 24, 1997, Columbia, Missouri.
Pye, C. 1997. Language translation as a model for language acquisition. Child Language Proseminar, University of Kansas, April 1997.
Pye, C. 1996. Determining verb argument structure in Copainalá Zoque. Mid-America Linguistics Conference, November 1, 1996, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
Pye, C. 1996. Verb argument structure in Copainalá Zoque. Linguistics Colloquy, University of Kansas, October 1996.
Served as member of faculty panel for the Faculty Grant Development Workshop, University of Kansas, September 27, 1996.
Pye, C. 1996. K'iche' Maya verbs of breaking and cutting. Linguistic Society of America and the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, January 1996, San Diego.
Pye, C. 1996. K'iche' Maya verbs of breaking and cutting. Linguistics Colloquy, University of Kansas, February 1996.
Pye, C. 1995. ThePye Analysis of Language. Session on the computerized analysis of language. American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention, December 1995, Orlando.
Loeb, D. F.,Pye, C. & Armstrong, N. 1995. A Comparison of Language-Matching Indices. Poster, American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention, December 1995, Orlando.
Loeb, D. F.,Pye, C., Schneller, C. & Carr, A. 1995. Verb Alternations of Adults with a History of Language Impairment. Poster, American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention, December 1995, Orlando.
Pye, C., Kemper, S. & Pao, Y. Y. 1995. Practical parsing: Using computers to analyze language data. University of Kansas Child Language Proseminar, September 6, 1995.
Pye, C., Loeb, D. F. & Pao, Y. Y. 1995. Learning to Cut and Break. 1995 Stanford Child Language Research Forum, April 8, 1995, Stanford University.
Richardson, L. Z., Loeb, D. F.,Pye, C. & Redmond, S. 1994. Children's development of the causative alternation. Poster, American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention, November 21, 1994, New Orleans.
Pye, C., Loeb, D. F., Richardson, L. Z. & Redmond, S. 1994. The Role of Verbs in Normal and Impaired Language Acquisition, Miniseminar, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, November 20, 1994, New Orleans.
Pye, C. & Pao, Y. Y. 1994. Making the Cut. Mid-America Linguistics Conference, October 15, 1994, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
Pye, C. 1994. Verbs as a Paradigm of the Syntax-Semantics Interface. University of Kansas Child Language Proseminar, August 31, 1994.
Loeb, D. F., Pye, C., Redmond, S. & Richardson, L. Z. 1994. Verb Alternations of Children with Specific Language Impairment. Poster, Symposium for Child Language Disorders Research, June 7, 1994, The University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Pye, C. 1994. Discussant for panel presentation Pronoun Case Errors: New Approaches to an Old Phenomenon. 1994 Stanford Child Language Research Forum, April 5, 1994, Stanford University.
Pye, C., Loeb, D., Redmond, S. & Richardson, L. Z. 1994. When Do Children Acquire Verbs? 1994 Stanford Child Language Research Forum, April 4, 1994, Stanford University.
Pye, C. 1993, October. Radical Translation in Linguistic Theory, Linguistics Colloquy, The University of Kansas.
Pye, C. 1993, September. Verbs - Again!, Child Language Proseminar, The University of Kansas.
Pye, C. 1993, January. Language Acquisition as Radical Translation, Workshop on Thematic Roles in Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition, The University of Kansas.
Pye, C. 1992, February. Linking, Child Language Proseminar, The University of Kansas.
Pye, C. 1992, February. The Acquisition of Locative Expressions in K'iche' Maya, Workshop on Spatial Expressions in Mayan Languages, The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nejmegan, The Netherlands.
Pye, C. 1991, June. Language Specific Constraints on Lexical Alternations, Workshop on Cross-linguistic and Cross-population Contributions to Theories of Language Acquisition, The Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Pye, C. 1991, April. Learning from Miniature Language Teaching, Linguistics Colloquy, The University of Kansas.
Pye, C. 1991. Acquiring Lexical Constraints on Causatives in K'iche' Maya, Stanford University Child Language Research Forum, Stanford.
Pye, C. & Ingram, D. 1990, November. Learning a Real Miniature Language: A New Paradigm, 1990 American Speech-Language-Hearing Meeting, Seattle.
Pye, C. 1990, October. Learning to Constrain Verb Transitivity, 1990 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, The University of Kansas.
Pye, C. 1990, October. Learning a Real Miniature Language, Psychology Department, The University of Kansas.
Pye, C. 1990, September. Linguistics Adventures in Guatemala, Proseminar in Child Language, The University of Kansas.
Pye, C. 1990, April. The Acquisition of Vo Movement, Stanford University Child Language Research Forum, Stanford.
Pye, C. 1990, March. The Acquisition of Vo Movement, Linguistics Colloquy, The University of Kansas.
Pye, C. 1990, March. A Radical Lexical Account of Language Acquisition, Proseminar in Child Language, The University of Kansas.
Pye, C. 1989, December. The Acquisition of Xo Movement, annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Washington DC.
Pye, C. 1989, November. K'iche' Mayan Modes of Mother-Infant Interaction, Proseminar in Child Language, The University of Kansas.
Pye, C., Kemper, S. & Chueng, H. 1989, September. Island Constraints at Eighty, Conference on the Psycholinguistics of Island Constraints, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
Pye, C. 1989, April. Distinguishing Active and Antipassive Verbs in Quiché Mayan, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Kansas City.
Pye, C. 1989, March. What's in a Verb? Proseminar in Child Language, The University of Kansas.
Pye, C. 1989, March. Explaining the Antipassive, Linguistics Colloquy, The University of Kansas.
Pye, C. 1988, November. The Acquisition of Quiché Mayan, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association, Phoenix.
Pye, C. 1988, October. The Acquisition of Passives and Antipassives in Quiché Mayan, Boston University Conference on Language Development.
Pye, C. 1988, April. Precocious Passives (and Antipassives) in Quiché Mayan, Stanford Child Language Research Forum.
Pye, C. 1988, March. The Acquisition of Voice in Quiché Mayan, Linguistics Colloquy, The University of Kansas.
Pye, C. 1988, March. The Ergative Parameter, Southwestern Society for Research in Human Development, New Orleans.
Pye, C. 1987, November. Ergativity, Conference on The Structure of the Simple Clause in Language Acquisition, Parasession on Verb-Argument Structure, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Pye, C. & Ingram, D. 1987. Automating the Analysis of Child Phonology, a miniseminar presented at the 1987 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in New Orleans.
Pye, C. 1987, October. Universal Alignment and Language Acquisition, 1987 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, University of Kansas.
Pye, C. 1987, July. The Acquisition of Syntax in Quiché Mayan, Fourth International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Lund, Sweden.
Pye, C. 1987, June. La adquisicion de Quiché, IX Taller Maya, La Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, C.A.
Pye, C. 1986, November. The Analysis of Syntactic Productivity, Proseminar in Child Language, The University of Kansas.
Pye, C. & Wilcox, K. 1986, October. Assessing Transcription Reliability, Proseminar in Child Language, The University of Kansas.
Pye, C. 1986, September. The Analysis of Language Samples by Computer: Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax, Linguistics Colloquy, The University of Kansas.
Pye, C. 1986, May. Why Do Some Children Only Learn One Language?, 1986 International Native American Language Issues Institute.
Pye, C. 1986, February. Assessing Current Models of Syntactic Acquisition: What Does the Child Need to Acquire Language? Linguistics Colloquy, The University of Kansas.
Pye, C. 1986, February. Why Phonology? Proseminar in Child Language, The University of Kansas.
Pye, C. 1985, December. Language Loss in the Chilcotin, 84th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
Pye, C. 1985, March. The Acquisition of Transitivity in Quiché Mayan, Stanford Child Language Research Forum.
Pye, C. 1984, October. Morphological Correlates of Transitivity in the Speech of Quiché Mayan Children, Western Conference on Linguistics, The University of British Columbia.
Pye, C, Ingram, D. & List, H. 1984, July. A Comparison of Initial Consonant Acquisition in English and Quiché, The Third International Congress for the Study of Child Language, The University of Texas-Austin.
Pye, C. 1983, December. An Ethnography of Quiché Mayan Speech to Children, Linguistics Colloquium, The University of British Columbia.
Pye, C. & Bernstein Ratner, N. 1983, October. Higher Pitch in BT is not Universal: Data from Quiché Mayan and its Implications, The Eighth Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.
Pye, C. 1982, December. Baby Talk in Quiché Mayan, 81st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
Pye, C. 1982, October. Baby Talk in Quiché Mayan, The Seventh Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.
Pye, C. 1982, September. How Much Did You Pay?: Baby Talk in Quiché Mayan, 44th International Congress of Americanists, Manchester, England.
Pye, C. 1982, April. Mayan Motherese, Linguistics Colloquium, SUNY, Albany, NY.
Pye, C. 1981, December. Mayan Telegraphese: Children's First Words in Quiché Mayan, 80th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
Pye, C. 1981, October. Children's First Verb Forms in Quiché Mayan: A Phonological Conspiracy Unmasked, The Sixth Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.
Pye, C. 1981, August. Mayan Telegraphese: Stage I Speech in Quiché Mayan, The Second International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Pye, C. 1980, December. The Acquisition of Grammatical Morphemes in Quiché Mayan, 79th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
Pye, C. 1980, October. A Comparative Study of Grammatical Morpheme Acquisition, Department of Anthropology Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh.
Pye, C. 1980, March. The Acquisition of Person Markers in Quiché Mayan, Stanford Child Language Research Forum.
Pye, C. 1979, December. The Acquisition of Person Markers in Quiché Mayan Verbs, 78th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
Pye, C. 1974, May. Computer Simulation of Demographic Changes in Small Societies, Department of Anthropology Seminar on Processual Models, University of Pittsburgh.