Asymmetric vowel harmony in Greenlandic fringe dialects
This paper deals with a phenomenon characteristic ofcertain regional varieties of Greenlandic Eskimo,viz. the so-called "i-dialect" in which /i/ has replaced/u/ in a great many instances. It is shownthat this vowel shift is due to distant assimilation,and the resultant pattern is referred...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Institute of Phonetics University of Copenhagen
1975
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| Online Access: | https://tidsskrift.dk/ARIPUC/article/view/130970 |
| Summary: | This paper deals with a phenomenon characteristic ofcertain regional varieties of Greenlandic Eskimo,viz. the so-called "i-dialect" in which /i/ has replaced/u/ in a great many instances. It is shownthat this vowel shift is due to distant assimilation,and the resultant pattern is referred to as a case of "asymmetric" vowel harmony. Various descriptivemodels accounting for this pattern, and their possibleimplications for hypotheses about internalizedgrammar, are discussed. |
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