Vowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak

Like several other Western Nilotic languages, the Mayak variety of Northern Burun has two sets of vowels distinguished by the feature [ATR], the [-ATR] vowels [I, E, a, i, u] and the [+ATR] vowels [i, e, A, 0, u]. However, the mid [+ATR] vowels [e] and [o] are variants of the mid [-ATR] vowels /e/ a...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal:	Torben Andersen
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN FR
Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1999
Materias:	Nilotic Northern Burun vowel harmony [ATR] vowel height Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/63e699c68430499dbf917b2d898e344e
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:63e699c68430499dbf917b2d898e344e
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:63e699c68430499dbf917b2d898e344e2021-11-19T03:53:47ZVowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak10.32473/sal.v28i1.1073770039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/63e699c68430499dbf917b2d898e344e1999-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107377https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XLike several other Western Nilotic languages, the Mayak variety of Northern Burun has two sets of vowels distinguished by the feature [ATR], the [-ATR] vowels [I, E, a, i, u] and the [+ATR] vowels [i, e, A, 0, u]. However, the mid [+ATR] vowels [e] and [o] are variants of the mid [-ATR] vowels /e/ and /i/ conditioned by a following high I+ATR] vowel. This allophony is the effect of one of four general vowel harmony processes. In addition, [-ATR) root vowels exhibit grammatically conditioned alternation which affects either [ATR] or height. The mixed character of this alternation invites the hypothesis that original mid [+ATR] vowels have merged with the high [-ATR] vowels, and this hypothesis is confirmed by a comparison of Mayak with other Western Nilotic languages.Torben AndersenLibraryPress@UFarticleNiloticNorthern Burunvowel harmony[ATR]vowel heightPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 28, Iss 1 (1999)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN FR
topic	Nilotic Northern Burun vowel harmony [ATR] vowel height Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	Nilotic Northern Burun vowel harmony [ATR] vowel height Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Torben Andersen Vowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak
description	Like several other Western Nilotic languages, the Mayak variety of Northern Burun has two sets of vowels distinguished by the feature [ATR], the [-ATR] vowels [I, E, a, i, u] and the [+ATR] vowels [i, e, A, 0, u]. However, the mid [+ATR] vowels [e] and [o] are variants of the mid [-ATR] vowels /e/ and /i/ conditioned by a following high I+ATR] vowel. This allophony is the effect of one of four general vowel harmony processes. In addition, [-ATR) root vowels exhibit grammatically conditioned alternation which affects either [ATR] or height. The mixed character of this alternation invites the hypothesis that original mid [+ATR] vowels have merged with the high [-ATR] vowels, and this hypothesis is confirmed by a comparison of Mayak with other Western Nilotic languages.
format	article
author	Torben Andersen
author_facet	Torben Andersen
author_sort	Torben Andersen
title	Vowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak
title_short	Vowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak
title_full	Vowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak
title_fullStr	Vowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak
title_full_unstemmed	Vowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak
title_sort	vowel harmony and vowel alternation in mayak
publisher	LibraryPress@UF
publishDate	1999
url	https://doaj.org/article/63e699c68430499dbf917b2d898e344e
work_keys_str_mv	AT torbenandersen vowelharmonyandvowelalternationinmayak
_version_	1718420554740924416

Vowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak

Ejemplares similares