Statistical and acoustic effects on the perception of stop consonants in Kaqchikel (Mayan)

This paper investigates the relationship between speech perception and linguistic experience in Kaqchikel, a Guatemalan Mayan language. Our empirical focus is the perception of plain, ejective, and implosive stops. Drawing on an AX discrimination task, a corpus of spoken Kaqchikel, and a text corpus...

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Main Authors: Ryan Bennett, Kevin Tang, Juan Ajsivinac Sian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2018-05-01
Series:Laboratory Phonology
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Online Access:https://www.journal-labphon.org/articles/100