Internal and Comparative Reconstruction in Yawalapiti
Palatalization and Rule Telescoping
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 4560794 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Fernando O De Carvalho (0000-0002-2115-7416, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2016 |
| Volumen | 82 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 285-316 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2016-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | International Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001 |
| Editorial | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/687384 |
| OpenAlex | W2471796762 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 4 |
| Referencias citadas | 10 |
This paper presents an investigation of the historical phonology of Yawalapiti, an Arawak language spoken in central Brazil. After internal reconstruction is applied to a set of alternations observed in the language, comparative evidence for the proposed reconstructions is addressed. The alternations in question can be loosely described as involving some sort of palatalization process, but the adequacy of this label is obscured by some properties that make these alternations unnatural from a phonetic point of view and highly morphologized. It is shown that these alternations can be seen as the result of developments starting with phonetically transparent, allophonic rules of palatalization of the kind seen in other southern Arawak languages. Additional hypotheses on the historical phonology of the language are also advanced and argued for using comparative evidence
Linguistics · Phonology · Point (geometry · Set (abstract data type · sort · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citas por año | 0,4 |
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| Intervalo de citas | 2016 - 2017 (2) |
| Altamente citado | No |