The Phonology of Panãra

A Prosodic Analysis

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3136764
AutoresMyriam Lapierre (0009-0004-0774-3875, University of Washington, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen89
Número3
Páginas333-356
Fecha de publicación2023-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/724988
OpenAlexW4381547915
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas10

This paper provides a detailed description and analysis of the prosodic phonology of Panãra (ISO code: kre), a Northern Jê language spoken in Central Brazil. Panãra exhibits culminative stress, which always falls on the last lexical vowel of a root or stem. This property gives rise to two stress patterns, namely ultimate and penultimate stress, where the latter arises from a process of vowel epenthesis that resolves a ban on word-final obstruent and approximant codas. Furthermore, the grammar exhibits a word-minimality requirement, where CRV and CVC roots are considered heavier than both CV and CV ː roots. Finally, segmental and prosodic well-formedness interact in complex ways in the grammar of Panãra, resulting in patterns of word-initial and morpheme-final [i] epenthesis

Grammar · Linguistics · Morpheme · Obstruent · Phonology · Stress (linguistics · Vowel · Word (group theory · Computer Science · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research