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- Title
Kelabit-Lun Dayeh Phonology, with Special Reference to the Voiced Aspirates.
- Authors
Blust, Robert
- Abstract
The phonology of Bario Kelabit and most dialects of Lun Dayeh is more complex than that of many languages in island Asia. Among noteworthy features are a typologically rare series of true voiced aspirates /bh/, /dh/, /gh/, consonant gemination that is stress-dependent, two processes that delete underlying vowels, a system of partial verbal ablaut targeting bases with penultimate schwa, and synchronic processes that reduce underlying voiced aspirates to their plain voiced counterparts under certain conditions, and create surface voiced aspirates from underlying plain voiced stops under others. This paper aims at a general overview of the phonology of both languages, although a disproportionate amount of attention is given to the voiced aspirates because of their uniqueness or nearuniqueness in global perspective, and their revealing interactions with such processes as stress, gemination, and vowel laxing/lowering.
- Subjects
PHONOLOGY; DIALECTS; LANGUAGE &; languages; GEMINATION; CONSONANTS
- Publication
Oceanic Linguistics, 2016, Vol 55, Issue 1, p246
- ISSN
0029-8115
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ol.2016.0010