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The Serial Interaction of Stress and Syncope John J
University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Linguistics Department Faculty Publication Series Linguistics January 2008 The serial interaction of stress and syncope John J. McCarthy University of Massachusetts, Amherst, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs Part of the Morphology Commons, Near Eastern Languages and Societies Commons, and the Phonetics and Phonology Commons Recommended Citation McCarthy, John J., "The es rial interaction of stress and syncope" (2008). Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 90. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/90 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Linguistics at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Linguistics Department Faculty Publication Series by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Nat Lang Linguist Theory (2008) 26: 499–546 DOI 10.1007/s11049-008-9051-3 ORIGINAL PAPER The serial interaction of stress and syncope John J. McCarthy Received: 7 November 2007 / Accepted: 12 April 2008 / Published online: 26 August 2008 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 Abstract Many languages respect the generalization that some or all unstressed vow- els are deleted. This generalization proves elusive in classic Optimality Theory, how- ever. The source of the problem is classic OT’s parallel evaluation, which requires that the effects of stress assignment and syncope be optimized together. This article argues for a version of OT called Harmonic Serialism, in which the effects of stress assignment and syncope can and must be evaluated sequentially. The results are po- tentially applicable to other domains where process interaction is best understood in derivational terms. -
Syncope in Crimean Tatar*
Syncope in Crimean Tatar* Darya Kavitskaya Yale University Crimean Tatar has a pervasive syncope of high vowels postlexically. The syncope of unstressed vowels only occurs when it results in a phonotactically acceptable syllable structure. Additionally, stressed high vowels delete between identical consonants with the following degemination which is attributed to a highly ranked OCP constraint. An apparent counterexample, the syncope of high vowels followed by voiceless geminates, is shown to be a matter of phonetic implementation, while the former processes have to be represented in phonology. 1. Introduction Crimean Tatar (henceforth, CT) is a West Kipchak language which belongs to the northwestern branch of Turkic (Johanson 1998:81). CT is spoken mainly in the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine, as well as in Uzbekistan, and also in small communities in Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey. According to traditional descriptions, CT is subdivided into three dialects: Southern (or Coastal), Central, and Northern (or Steppe) (Johanson and Csato 1998). All three dialects are endangered (Southern and Northern more so than Central): the language is now extensively used mostly by the speakers older than forty, and very few children learn it as their first language. The sociolinguistic situation of CT is quite unusual. In 1944, the entire Tatar population of Crimea was deported to Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan), and to several locations in Russia. As a result, the speakers of CT dialects that used to be linguistically homogenous were separated, mixed, and immersed into radically different language environments. The early 1990s saw the return of Crimean Tatars to their homeland. Currently about 250,000 Crimean Tatars live in Crimea again, and another 250,000 are still in exile. -
Part 1: Introduction to The
PREVIEW OF THE IPA HANDBOOK Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A guide to the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet PARTI Introduction to the IPA 1. What is the International Phonetic Alphabet? The aim of the International Phonetic Association is to promote the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of that science. For both these it is necessary to have a consistent way of representing the sounds of language in written form. From its foundation in 1886 the Association has been concerned to develop a system of notation which would be convenient to use, but comprehensive enough to cope with the wide variety of sounds found in the languages of the world; and to encourage the use of thjs notation as widely as possible among those concerned with language. The system is generally known as the International Phonetic Alphabet. Both the Association and its Alphabet are widely referred to by the abbreviation IPA, but here 'IPA' will be used only for the Alphabet. The IPA is based on the Roman alphabet, which has the advantage of being widely familiar, but also includes letters and additional symbols from a variety of other sources. These additions are necessary because the variety of sounds in languages is much greater than the number of letters in the Roman alphabet. The use of sequences of phonetic symbols to represent speech is known as transcription. The IPA can be used for many different purposes. For instance, it can be used as a way to show pronunciation in a dictionary, to record a language in linguistic fieldwork, to form the basis of a writing system for a language, or to annotate acoustic and other displays in the analysis of speech. -
On Syncope in Old English
In: Dieter Kastovsky and Aleksander Szwedek (eds) Linguistics across historical and geographical boundaries. In honour of Jacek Fisiak on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday. Berlin: Mouton-de Gruyter, 1986, 359-66. On syncope in Old English Raymond Hickey University of Bonn Abstract. Syncope in Old English is seen to be a rule which is determined by syllable structure but furthermore to be governed by a set of restricting conditions which refer to the world-class status of the forms which may act as input to the syncope rule, and also to the inflectional or derivational nature of the suffix which are added also to the precise phonological structure of those forms which undergo syncope. A phonological rule in a language which does not operate globally is always of particular interest as the conditions which restrict its application can frequently be recognized and formulized, at the same time throwing light on the nature of conditions which can in principle apply in a language’s phonology. In Old English a syncope rule existed which clearly related to the syllable structure of the forms it did not operate on but which was also subject to a set of restricting conditions which lie outside the domain of the syllable. The examination of this syncope rule and the conditions pertaining to it is the subject of this contribution. It is first of all necessary to distinguish syncope from another phonological process with which it might be confused. This is epenthesis, which appears to have been quite widespread in late West Saxon, as can be seen in the following forms. -
Rhythmic Syncope and Opacity in Mojeño Trinitario Françoise Rose
Rhythmic syncope and opacity in Mojeño Trinitario Françoise Rose To cite this version: Françoise Rose. Rhythmic syncope and opacity in Mojeño Trinitario. Phonological Data and Analysis, Linguistic Society of America, 2019, 1 (2), pp.1-25. 10.3765/pda.v1art2.2. hal-02275393 HAL Id: hal-02275393 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02275393 Submitted on 30 Aug 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution| 4.0 International License Phonological Data & Analysis Volume 1, Article 2: 1–25 (2019) pɗɑ https://doi.org/10.3765/pda.v1art2.2 Received 7 December 2017; revised 19 October 2018; accepted 29 January 2019. © 2019 Françoise Rose. Published by the Linguistic Society of America with permission of the author under a CC BY 3.0 license. Rhythmic syncope and opacity in Mojeño Trinitario Françoise Rose* Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – [email protected] This paper presents rhythmic syncope in Mojeño Trinitario, an Arawak language spoken in lowland Bolivia. In this language, every vowel that is in a weak prosodic position can syncopate. The syncope pattern of Mojeño Trinitario is remarkable for several reasons. -
Rhythmic Syncope and Opacity in Mojeño Trinitario
Phonological Data & Analysis Volume 1, Article 2: 1–25 (2019) pɗɑ https://doi.org/10.3765/pda.v1art2.2 Received 7 December 2017; revised 19 October 2018; accepted 29 January 2019. © 2019 Françoise Rose. Published by the Linguistic Society of America with permission of the author under a CC BY 3.0 license. Rhythmic syncope and opacity in Mojeño Trinitario Françoise Rose* Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – [email protected] This paper presents rhythmic syncope in Mojeño Trinitario, an Arawak language spoken in lowland Bolivia. In this language, every vowel that is in a weak prosodic position can syncopate. The syncope pattern of Mojeño Trinitario is remarkable for several reasons. First, it involves a regular, categorical and complete deletion rather than a statistical reduction of vowels. Second, it applies similarly to words with either of two stress patterns: iambic words, which make up the great majority of words, and trochaic ones, much less numerous. Third, a great variety of consonant sequences are the result of syncope, and syllabification applies again after syncope. Fourth, rhythmic syncope actually underapplies: almost half of the vowels that are in a position to syncopate are maintained, and vowel quality plays a statistical role in immunity to syncope. Fifth, due to a rich morphology and a set of complex phonotactic rules applying sequentially, syncope leads to extreme opacity. The data presented in this paper in a theory-neutral way contribute to the typology of rhythmic syncope. It will also be of interest to phonologists considering constraint-based vs. derivational models of phonology. Keywords: phonology; stress; prosody; rhythmic syncope; Mojeño (Arawak) 1 Introduction Mojeño is an Arawak language spoken in lowland Bolivia. -
Acoustic Characteristics of Tense and Lax Vowels Across Sentence Position in Clear Speech Lindsay Kayne Roesler University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee UWM Digital Commons Theses and Dissertations August 2013 Acoustic Characteristics of Tense and Lax Vowels Across Sentence Position in Clear Speech Lindsay Kayne Roesler University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.uwm.edu/etd Part of the Other Rehabilitation and Therapy Commons Recommended Citation Roesler, Lindsay Kayne, "Acoustic Characteristics of Tense and Lax Vowels Across Sentence Position in Clear Speech" (2013). Theses and Dissertations. 754. https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/754 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by UWM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of UWM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF TENSE AND LAX VOWELS ACROSS SENTENCE POSITION IN CLEAR SPEECH by Lindsay Roesler A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Communication Sciences and Disorders at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee August 2013 ABSTRACT ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF TENSE AND LAX VOWELS ACROSS SENTENCE POSITION IN CLEAR SPEECH by Lindsay Roesler The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2013 Under the Supervision of Professor Jae Yung Song The purpose of this study was to examine the acoustic characteristics of tense and lax vowels across sentence positions in clear speech. Recordings were made of 12 participants reading monosyllabic target words at varying positions within semantically meaningful sentences. Acoustic analysis was completed to determine the effects of Style (clear vs. conversational), Tenseness (tense vs. lax), and Position (sentence-medial vs. sentence-final) on vowel duration, vowel space area, vowel space dispersion, and vowel peripheralization. -
Phonetic Explanation Without Compromise the Evolution of Mussau Syncope
Phonetic explanation without compromise The evolution of Mussau syncope Juliette Blevins Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Blust (2005, 2007a, 2007b) questions the phonetic motivation of a number of well-attested sound changes. One sound change in this class is the purported case of stressed vowel syncope in Mussau, an Oceanic language (Blust 1984, 2001, 2007a). Regular syncopes typically target unstressed vowels. By contrast, loss of stressed vowels is difficult to motivate, due to their inherent prominence. Close inspection of Mussau historical phonology suggests that, at its origins, syncope was limited to unstressed vowels, with subsequent developments ob- scuring its original phonetic motivation. Under the proposed analysis, the Neo- grammarian insistence on phonetically motivated sound change is maintained. Keywords: sound change, phonetic motivation, naturalness, vowel syncope, Mussau 1. The general problem Are all sound changes phonetically motivated? The Neogrammarians believed so, and catalogued many instances where sound change was of a purely phonetic nature, triggered by the effects of surrounding sounds, accent, syllabic position, and general articulatory tendencies (Osthoff & Brugman 1878, Paul 1880). While Neogrammarian phonetic explanation was based primarily on the mechanisms of speech production, a range of students who studied in Leipzig during the latter part of the 19th century, from Baudouin de Courtenay to Gustaf E. Karsten, soon embraced perception as an additional explanatory mechanism of phonetically based sound change.1 In more recent times, further evidence has accumulated for 1. On Baudouin’s conception of misperception, see Blevins (2007a:144). Karsten, a student of Paul’s, presents an eloquent and strikingly modern exemplar-based view of sound change and analogy in which perception and misperception are central in his 1894 paper “The Psychological Basis of Phonetic Law and Analogy”. -
Slouching Toward Optimality: Coda Reduction in OT-CC John J
University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Linguistics Department Faculty Publication Series Linguistics January 2007 Slouching toward optimality: Coda reduction in OT-CC John J. McCarthy University of Massachusetts, Amherst, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs Part of the Morphology Commons, Near Eastern Languages and Societies Commons, and the Phonetics and Phonology Commons Recommended Citation McCarthy, John J., "Slouching toward optimality: Coda reduction in OT-CC" (2007). Phonological Studies (Journal of the Phonological Society of Japan). 74. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/74 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Linguistics at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Linguistics Department Faculty Publication Series by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Slouching Towards Optimality: Coda Reduction in OT-CC* John J. McCarthy University of Massachusetts Amherst Abstract. There is a well-established asymmetry in the behavior of medial consonant clusters: the first consonant in the cluster can undergo assimilation or deletion, but the second consonant in the cluster cannot. This article presents an explanation for that asymmetry based on a version of Optimality Theory with candidate chains (McCarthy (2006a)). The key idea is that a consonant can only assimilate or delete if it first loses its place features by debuccalizing, and debuccalization is only possible in coda position. Keywords: OT, coda, assimilation, candidate chain. 1. Introduction Medial consonant clusters are often simplified or assimilated: /patka/ → [paka], /pamka/ → [paŋka]. There is an interesting asymmetry in these processes: they always target the first member of the cluster for deletion or assimilation. -
Laura Bafile. Syncope, Epenthesis and Syllable Structure
SYNCOPE, EPENTHESIS AND SYLLABLE STRUCTURE: THE CASE OF SOME ITALIAN DIALECTS Laura BAFILE 1. Introduction Most Northern and Southern Italian dialects, differing from Standard Italian for what concernes prosodic structure, show among other features the weakness of unstressed nuclei. However, while in Southern dialects nuclear weakening typically results in the centralisation or in the raising of mid vowels, in most Northern dialects unstressed nuclei have often undergone the complete loss of their segmental content. Word-final vowel deletion, a process we also observe in other Romance languages, is widespread in most Northern dialects, (excluding varieties of Veneto and Liguria), while only some dialects of Piedmont and Emilia-Romagna also show the deletion of non-final unstressed vowels. Given that final /a/ has been usually preserved, the deletion of final vowels results in a typical pattern of alternation between forms ending with a consonant and forms ending with /a/ (in (1) Standard Italian (SI) corresponding forms are also reported for comparison): (1) ‘cat (m.)’ ‘she-cat (f.)’ SI gatto / gatta ‘beautiful (m.)’ ‘beautiful (f.)’ SI bello / bella The loss of final vowels produces in some words consonant sequences in final position. However, most Northern dialects only permit some kind of final clusters, and some do not permit final clusters at all. Therefore, different strategies are followed in order to avoid violation of phonotactic requirements. Few varieties, especially in the region of Friuli, show the solution of cluster reduction (see 2a), which usually regards sonorant+sonorant sequences. The insertion of a non- etymological vowel at the end of the word is typical of Southern Romagna and Northern Marche (the example in 2b refers to the dialect of Urbino). -
Phonetics Exercises—Answers, P. 1
44166. STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH II: THE WORD Prof. Yehuda N. Falk Phonetics Exercises—Answers, p. 1 PART 1: Review Exercises 1. Write down the phonetic symbols representing the following descriptions, and illustrate each of the sounds with two English words. a) A voiced labiodental fricative [v] h) A high front tense unrounded vowel [i] b) A voiceless alveolar fricative [s] i) A low back lax unrounded vowel [a] c) A voiced palato-alveolar affricate [ï] j) A mid front tense unrounded vowel [e] d) A voiceless glottal fricative [h] k) A mid front lax unrounded vowel [å] e) A voiceless bilabial stop [p] l) A high back lax rounded vowel [Ț] f) A voiceless dental fricative [“] m) A low back lax rounded vowel [ö] g) A voiced velar stop [g] n) A high front tense rounded vowel [ü] 2. Answer the following questions. a) What voiced consonant has the same place of articulation as [t] and the same manner of articulation as [f]? [z] b) What voiceless consonant has the same active articulator as [b] and the same passive articulator as [ ›]? [f] c) What voiced consonant has the same place of articulation as [m] and the same manner of articulation as [ l]? [b] d) What voiced consonant has the same active articulator as [n] and the same passive articulator as [f]? [ð] e) Which tense vowel has the same height as [ w] and the same advancement as [a]? [u] f) Which rounded vowel has the same height as [ e]? [o] 3. Indicate whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE. -
American Indian Languages (Abbreviated A), and the Alphabet of the Dialect Atlas of New England (Abbreviated D)
CONCORDANCE OF PHONETIC ALPHABETS Robert C. Hollow, Jr. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill A concordance of 3 major phonetic alphabets used in North America is presented and discussed. Those alphabets consid- ered are one used by the International Phonetic Association, one used for American dialectology and one used for American Indian languages. Comparisons are made in terms of vowel symbols, -consonant symbols, secondary segmental- symbols, and diacritic marks. Typewriter equivalents of standard symbols are also given. [phonetics, linguistics, North A.merica, American Indians, phonetic symbols] This paper is a brief concordance of the major phonetic alphabets currently in use by linguists and anthropologists in North America. The alphabets included are the International Phonetic Alphabet (abbreviated I in this paper), the Americanist alphabet used in the transcription of American Indian Languages (abbreviated A), and the alphabet of the Dialect Atlas of New England (abbreviated D). For convenience I have divided the concordance into five sections: 1) Primary Vowel Symbols, 2) Primary Consonant Symbols, 3) Secondary Segmental Symbols, 4) Diacritic Marks, and 5) Typewriter Symbols. The form of I used in this paper is the 1951 revision as fully presented in The Principles of the International Phonetic Association (International Phonetic Association 1957). D is presented and discussed in the Handbook of the Linguistic Geography of New England (Kurath, Bloch and Hansen 1939). This alphabet is based onI, but includes certain modifications made to facilitate the transcription of American English dialect material. There is no single phonetic alphabet currently in use by students of American Indian Languages, for this reason I have consulted several alternate formu- lations of phonetic alphabets given by scholars in the field, most notably 42 Bloch and Trager (1942), Pike (1947), Trager (1958), and Shipley (1965).