Contextual labialization in Nawuri

A spectrographic investigation into the non-contrastive labialization of consonants before round vowels in Nawuri (a Kwa language of Ghana) supports the notion that this labialization is the result of a phonological, featurespreading rule and not simply an automatic transitional process. This assump...

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Autor principal:	Roderic F. Casali
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN FR
Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1990
Materias:	phonetics vowels Nawuri Kwa labialization Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:881d8ba4092f49b7a0d7c06f53f678bd2021-11-19T03:54:27ZContextual labialization in Nawuri10.32473/sal.v21i3.1074300039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/881d8ba4092f49b7a0d7c06f53f678bd1990-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107430https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XA spectrographic investigation into the non-contrastive labialization of consonants before round vowels in Nawuri (a Kwa language of Ghana) supports the notion that this labialization is the result of a phonological, featurespreading rule and not simply an automatic transitional process. This assumption is further warranted in that it allows for a more natural treatment of some other phonological processes in the language. The fact that labialization before round vowels is generally not very audible is explained in terms of a principle of speech perception. A final topic addressed is the question of why (both in Nawuri and apparently in a number of other Ghanaian languages as well) contextual labialization does tend to be more perceptible in certain restricted environments.Roderic F. CasaliLibraryPress@UFarticlephoneticsvowelsNawuriKwalabializationPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 21, Iss 3 (1990)
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description	A spectrographic investigation into the non-contrastive labialization of consonants before round vowels in Nawuri (a Kwa language of Ghana) supports the notion that this labialization is the result of a phonological, featurespreading rule and not simply an automatic transitional process. This assumption is further warranted in that it allows for a more natural treatment of some other phonological processes in the language. The fact that labialization before round vowels is generally not very audible is explained in terms of a principle of speech perception. A final topic addressed is the question of why (both in Nawuri and apparently in a number of other Ghanaian languages as well) contextual labialization does tend to be more perceptible in certain restricted environments.
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title_short	Contextual labialization in Nawuri
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Contextual labialization in Nawuri

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