Vowel harmony and the consonant I in Chumburung

This paper presents a synchronic description of the realization of /l/ in Chumburung, a Kwa language of Ghana. In this description I attempt to demonstrate that the influence of the feature advanced tongue root is not restricted to the vowel harmony system, but also spreads to influence the realizat...

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Autor principal: Keith L. Snider
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Publicado: LibraryPress@UF 1984
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:fd49d2f73c714085b9f28497d04563922021-11-19T03:55:35ZVowel harmony and the consonant I in Chumburung10.32473/sal.v15i1.1075210039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/fd49d2f73c714085b9f28497d04563921984-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107521https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XThis paper presents a synchronic description of the realization of /l/ in Chumburung, a Kwa language of Ghana. In this description I attempt to demonstrate that the influence of the feature advanced tongue root is not restricted to the vowel harmony system, but also spreads to influence the realization of the consonant /l/. Following from this synchronic description is evidence suggesting that native speakers of Chumburung require more than phonetic information in order to choose the appropriate allophone of /l/.Keith L. SniderLibraryPress@UFarticleChumburungKwa[ATR]vowel harmonyphoneticsPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 15, Iss 1 (1984)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
FR
topic Chumburung
Kwa
[ATR]
vowel harmony
phonetics
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
spellingShingle Chumburung
Kwa
[ATR]
vowel harmony
phonetics
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Keith L. Snider
Vowel harmony and the consonant I in Chumburung
description This paper presents a synchronic description of the realization of /l/ in Chumburung, a Kwa language of Ghana. In this description I attempt to demonstrate that the influence of the feature advanced tongue root is not restricted to the vowel harmony system, but also spreads to influence the realization of the consonant /l/. Following from this synchronic description is evidence suggesting that native speakers of Chumburung require more than phonetic information in order to choose the appropriate allophone of /l/.
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author Keith L. Snider
author_facet Keith L. Snider
author_sort Keith L. Snider
title Vowel harmony and the consonant I in Chumburung
title_short Vowel harmony and the consonant I in Chumburung
title_full Vowel harmony and the consonant I in Chumburung
title_fullStr Vowel harmony and the consonant I in Chumburung
title_full_unstemmed Vowel harmony and the consonant I in Chumburung
title_sort vowel harmony and the consonant i in chumburung
publisher LibraryPress@UF
publishDate 1984
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