Darin Flynn
List of John Benjamins publications in which Darin Flynn is involved.
Articles
2026 Redeploying dimensions and learning gestures in the acquisition of new sounds: Glottalized consonants in Mayan languages New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference, Ionin, Tania and Silvina Montrul (eds.), pp. 331–357 | Chapter
This chapter explores the L2/L3 acquisition of Mayan ejectives from multiple languages. Proceeding from the dimensional framework of Avery and Idsardi (2001), we lay out a unified analysis of the phonological acquisition of Yucatec Maya by Spanish speakers, Kaqchikel by Spanish-English speakers,… read more
2014 Acoustic phonetic features in Athabaskan sound change Diachronica 31:2, pp. 192–222 | Article
A number of consonant shifts in the history of Athabaskan languages are considered. The goal is to better explain examples of ‘auditorily based substitution’ by invoking ‘phonetic features’ as is required by the sound change theory of Blevins (2004). We argue that the shifts are better understood… read more