A phonetico-semantic analysis of verb-noun contractions in Yoruba

This paper highlights the various studies which have been carried out to determine the rules which govern the elision of one of the vowels in a verb-noun concatenation where the verb is vowel-final and the noun vowel-initial. It proposes that there are basically three phonological rules which come i...

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Autor principal:	B. Rotimi Badejo
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Lenguaje:	EN FR
Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1986
Materias:	vowel elision semantic dissimilation Yoruba Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:fef1413a143e42fb9a22a03c5407da542021-11-19T03:55:17ZA phonetico-semantic analysis of verb-noun contractions in Yoruba10.32473/sal.v17i1.1074930039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/fef1413a143e42fb9a22a03c5407da541986-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107493https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XThis paper highlights the various studies which have been carried out to determine the rules which govern the elision of one of the vowels in a verb-noun concatenation where the verb is vowel-final and the noun vowel-initial. It proposes that there are basically three phonological rules which come into play at the Deep Structure Level. However, at the Surface Structure Level, the paper recognizes that there is a Semantic Dissimilation Principle (SDP), which may block the application of otherwise well-motivated rules. The SDP, then, guarantees maximal perceptual distance between otherwise homophonous products of the phonological rules.B. Rotimi BadejoLibraryPress@UFarticlevowel elisionsemantic dissimilationYorubaPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 17, Iss 1 (1986)
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topic	vowel elision semantic dissimilation Yoruba Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	vowel elision semantic dissimilation Yoruba Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 B. Rotimi Badejo A phonetico-semantic analysis of verb-noun contractions in Yoruba
description	This paper highlights the various studies which have been carried out to determine the rules which govern the elision of one of the vowels in a verb-noun concatenation where the verb is vowel-final and the noun vowel-initial. It proposes that there are basically three phonological rules which come into play at the Deep Structure Level. However, at the Surface Structure Level, the paper recognizes that there is a Semantic Dissimilation Principle (SDP), which may block the application of otherwise well-motivated rules. The SDP, then, guarantees maximal perceptual distance between otherwise homophonous products of the phonological rules.
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title	A phonetico-semantic analysis of verb-noun contractions in Yoruba
title_short	A phonetico-semantic analysis of verb-noun contractions in Yoruba
title_full	A phonetico-semantic analysis of verb-noun contractions in Yoruba
title_fullStr	A phonetico-semantic analysis of verb-noun contractions in Yoruba
title_full_unstemmed	A phonetico-semantic analysis of verb-noun contractions in Yoruba
title_sort	phonetico-semantic analysis of verb-noun contractions in yoruba
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A phonetico-semantic analysis of verb-noun contractions in Yoruba

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