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- Title
How Did Long Terawan Berawan Develop Sixteen Vowel Phonemes?
- Authors
Burkhardt, Jürgen M.
- Abstract
The Long Terawan Berawan system of vowel phonemes consists of one monophthong in the antepenult, schwa, and four monophthongs in the penult, i, ə, a, and u. However, the final syllable exhibits ten monophthongs (i, ĭ, e, ĕ, a, ă, u, ŭ, o, ŏ) and six diphthongs (əi, əu, ăi, ai, ău, au). The paper describes how the Long Terawan vowel phoneme system emerged from a Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian system of four monophthongs (*i, *ə, *a, *u).
- Subjects
POLYNESIAN languages; DAMANA language; VOWELS; PHONEME (Linguistics); BERAWAN (Malaysian people); MONOPHTHONGIZATION; SHWA (Phonetics)
- Publication
Oceanic Linguistics, 2016, Vol 55, Issue 2, p588
- ISSN
0029-8115
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ol.2016.0026