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- Title
Initial s-Actuated Register Shift in Yipoic Languages.
- Authors
Dempsey, Jakob
- Abstract
Matisoff hypothesized a system of voiced initials governing register shift in certain Yipoic (Loloish) syllables of the CVQ-type. Along the lines of my 2005 paper where I argued such a hypothesized system is not needed to explain the reflexes seen in modern Yipoic languages--here, I argue that such a system is not necessary to account for register shift seen in some Yipoic words of the type sVQ, either. This paper suggests that such register shifts are due to the initial s- itself, and that this effect is also seen in the *sRVQ-type syllable and even in some other syllable types. That all these shifts can be connected to the influence of initial s- (or a similar voiceless fricative) is an attractive simplification of the historical phonology of the Yipoic group.
- Subjects
LOLOISH languages; PHONOLOGY; TIBETO-Burman languages; S (The sound); PHONETICS; COMPARATIVE phonology; TONE (Phonetics); SYLLABLE (Grammar); FRICATIVES (Phonetics)
- Publication
Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, 2009, Vol 39, Issue 2, p165
- ISSN
0577-9170
- Publication type
Article