Lheidli intervocalic consonants: phonetic and morphological effects
Several researchers have noted that intervocalic consonants are unusually long in Navajo (Sapir & Hoijer 1967, Young & Morgan 1987, McDonough & Ladefoged 1993). This paper explores intervocalic consonant duration in the Lheidli dialect of Dakelh (Carrier) in order to determine whether th...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0025100304001616 2024-03-03T08:43:51+00:00 Lheidli intervocalic consonants: phonetic and morphological effects Bird, Sonya 2004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100304001616 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0025100304001616 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Journal of the International Phonetic Association volume 34, issue 1, page 69-91 ISSN 0025-1003 1475-3502 Speech and Hearing Linguistics and Language Anthropology Language and Linguistics journal-article 2004 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025100304001616 2024-02-08T08:46:24Z Several researchers have noted that intervocalic consonants are unusually long in Navajo (Sapir & Hoijer 1967, Young & Morgan 1987, McDonough & Ladefoged 1993). This paper explores intervocalic consonant duration in the Lheidli dialect of Dakelh (Carrier) in order to determine whether the long intervocalic consonants found in Navajo are characteristic of other Athabaskan languages as well. It is shown that Lheidli intervocalic consonants are substantially longer overall than (a) consonants in other positions within Lheidli, (b) vowels within Lheidli, and (c) singletons and geminates in other non-Athabaskan languages. Furthermore, intervocalic consonant duration is at least in part a function of morphological structure, with intervocalic consonants lengthening to signal a stem morpheme boundary. The data presented here provide new evidence for the existence of a language-specific phonetic component of grammar as well as for the interaction between phonetics and morphology. Article in Journal/Newspaper Dakelh Cambridge University Press Journal of the International Phonetic Association 34 1 69 91 |
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Several researchers have noted that intervocalic consonants are unusually long in Navajo (Sapir & Hoijer 1967, Young & Morgan 1987, McDonough & Ladefoged 1993). This paper explores intervocalic consonant duration in the Lheidli dialect of Dakelh (Carrier) in order to determine whether the long intervocalic consonants found in Navajo are characteristic of other Athabaskan languages as well. It is shown that Lheidli intervocalic consonants are substantially longer overall than (a) consonants in other positions within Lheidli, (b) vowels within Lheidli, and (c) singletons and geminates in other non-Athabaskan languages. Furthermore, intervocalic consonant duration is at least in part a function of morphological structure, with intervocalic consonants lengthening to signal a stem morpheme boundary. The data presented here provide new evidence for the existence of a language-specific phonetic component of grammar as well as for the interaction between phonetics and morphology. |
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Lheidli intervocalic consonants: phonetic and morphological effects |
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Lheidli intervocalic consonants: phonetic and morphological effects |
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