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- Title
COMPA RANDO AS CONSOANTES DAS LÍNGUAS TAPAJÚNA E SUYÁ.
- Authors
Coelho RODRIGUES, Cíntia Karla; Nazaré FERREIRA-SILVA, Marília de
- Abstract
This study investigates historical and comparative aspects of Tapajúna (Jê family) consonantal features, comparing cognates between Tapajúna and Suyá (also of the Jê family), in an effort to specify similarities and differences on the way to a reconstruction of the Macro-Jê stock. The comparative method was employed to detect correspondences between the languages. Data from Tapajúna and Suyá were compared to Proto-Jê data, as reconstructed by Davis (1966). There are few differences between Tapajúna and Suyá. Where there are variations in identical phonetico-phonologycal contexts, the question of speaker age arises, since, for example, pre-nasalized consonants occur in the speech of young people, whereas older Tapajúna speakers use only nasalized consonants.
- Subjects
CONSONANTS; COMPARATIVE studies; HISTORICAL linguistics; RECONSTRUCTION (Linguistics); LANGUAGE &; languages; PHONETICS; PHONOLOGY
- Publication
Alfa: Revista de Lingüística, 2011, Vol 55, Issue 2, p601
- ISSN
0002-5216
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S1981-57942011000200011