Nasality and Nasal Prosody in Chimila
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7298049 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Terry Malone (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-41 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/652753 |
| OpenAlex | W2027833204 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
In Chimila, nasal consonants contrast with voiced stops at the same point of articulation and no surface phonetic contrast occurs between nasalized and oral vowels in core lexemes. Nevertheless, several lines of evidence indicate that the Chimila lexicon includes nasal morphemes in contrast with oral morphemes. Evidence for this contrast includes morphophonemic alternations of stem-forming verb suffixes, appearance of a glottal glide following intransitive verb roots that have been transitivized, allomorphs of the intransitive imperative, and a restricted alternation between word-initial voiced stops and nasal consonants in roots and some suffixes. A constraint requiring lexical nasality to attach to consonants in core lexemes and the interaction of this constraint with the prosodic system, lexical tone, syllable structure, and the morphology account for the varied manifestations of lexical nasality
Allomorph · Contrast (vision · Lexicon · Linguistics · Morpheme · Morphophonology · Nasality · Nasalization · Phonology · Syllable · Verb · Vowel · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |