Metathesis and syllabification in West Greenlandic Eskimo

Consonant metathesis in West Greenlandic Eskimo (WGE) has attracted considerable attention in the literature (Pyle, 1970; Underhill, 1971; Sadock, 1972). In this paper I readdress this issue using the tools of non-linear phonology. Within the non-linear framework, the WGE metathesis process need not...

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Main Author: Brunson, Barbara
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto 1987
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spelling ftunitorontoojs:oai:jps.library.utoronto.ca:article/6402 2023-05-15T16:06:33+02:00 Metathesis and syllabification in West Greenlandic Eskimo Brunson, Barbara 1987-01-01 application/pdf https://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/article/view/6402 eng eng Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto https://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/article/view/6402/3390 https://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/article/view/6402 Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics; Vol 7 (1987) 1718-3510 1705-8619 Metathesis Inuktitut Eskimo Greenlandic non-linear phonology info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 1987 ftunitorontoojs 2020-12-01T10:34:53Z Consonant metathesis in West Greenlandic Eskimo (WGE) has attracted considerable attention in the literature (Pyle, 1970; Underhill, 1971; Sadock, 1972). In this paper I readdress this issue using the tools of non-linear phonology. Within the non-linear framework, the WGE metathesis process need not be stipulated as a rule, but is instead a result of a repair strategy. The constraints imposed on this repair strategy yield interesting insights into the nature of autosegmental attachment and syllable parsing, and also indicate an analogy to syntactic structural 'movement' that might ultimately prove relevant to attempts to characterize and formalize general structural conditions on movement rules throughout the grammar. Article in Journal/Newspaper eskimo* greenlandic inuktitut University of Toronto: Journal Publishing Services
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topic Metathesis
Inuktitut
Eskimo
Greenlandic
non-linear phonology
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Inuktitut
Eskimo
Greenlandic
non-linear phonology
Brunson, Barbara
Metathesis and syllabification in West Greenlandic Eskimo
topic_facet Metathesis
Inuktitut
Eskimo
Greenlandic
non-linear phonology
description Consonant metathesis in West Greenlandic Eskimo (WGE) has attracted considerable attention in the literature (Pyle, 1970; Underhill, 1971; Sadock, 1972). In this paper I readdress this issue using the tools of non-linear phonology. Within the non-linear framework, the WGE metathesis process need not be stipulated as a rule, but is instead a result of a repair strategy. The constraints imposed on this repair strategy yield interesting insights into the nature of autosegmental attachment and syllable parsing, and also indicate an analogy to syntactic structural 'movement' that might ultimately prove relevant to attempts to characterize and formalize general structural conditions on movement rules throughout the grammar.
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title Metathesis and syllabification in West Greenlandic Eskimo
title_short Metathesis and syllabification in West Greenlandic Eskimo
title_full Metathesis and syllabification in West Greenlandic Eskimo
title_fullStr Metathesis and syllabification in West Greenlandic Eskimo
title_full_unstemmed Metathesis and syllabification in West Greenlandic Eskimo
title_sort metathesis and syllabification in west greenlandic eskimo
publisher Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
publishDate 1987
url https://twpl.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/twpl/article/view/6402
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op_source Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics; Vol 7 (1987)
1718-3510
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