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Native Reaction and Phonetic Similarity in Maxakalí Phonology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Sarah C. Gudschinsky,
Harold Popovich and
Frances Popovich
Sarah C. Gudschinsky
Affiliation:
Summer Institute of Linguistics
Harold Popovich
Affiliation:
Summer Institute of Linguistics
Frances Popovich
Affiliation:
Summer Institute of Linguistics
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Abstract

In Maxakalí, some etically disyllabic sequences of the shape [CVCV] are interpreted as emic monosyllables of the shape /CVC/: e.g. [taγӘT] /tat/ ‘to carry’. This paper (a) describes the phonemic system of Maxakalí, with special attention to the unorthodox variants of the consonants; (b) presents the psycholinguistic evidence supporting the analysis; and (c) discusses it in relation to the principle of phonetic similarity.

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Language , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , March 1970, pp. 77 - 88
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Copyright © 1970 by Linguistic Society of America

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