Immediate Constituents of Mazateco Syllables

Pike, Kenneth L.; Pike, Eunice V.

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“…As regards syllabicity, past work has moved along two different lines, which may coexist in GP. The first, built on the well-known representation of syllable structure which dates back to Pike and Pike (1947) and Kuryłowicz (1948), has long been the mainstream view in phonology. It is based on the assumption that such clusters involve branching constituents like complex onsets and rhymes, whence tautosyllabic clusters and coda+onset sequences.…”

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Deriving sonority from the structure, not the other way round: A Strict CV approach to consonant clusters

Carvalho

2017

The Linguistic Review

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This paper aims to show that sonority-based generalizations on consonant phonotactics should directly follow from representations, not from stipulations on representations such as the commonly accepted licensing or government statements. The basic reason for this is that the second approach is both arbitrary and circular, as it entails a variable ranking of alleged well-formedness principles, if we want to explain, for example, why TR clusters may be either tautosyllabic or heterosyllabic depending on the language. I argue instead for a representational alternative assuming that (i) consonants and vowels are universally segregated, and (ii) involve two parallel CVCV sequences -one on the C-plane, the other on the V-plane -(iii) which may differ in length. It is shown how the major sonority categories, and thereby the phonotactic constraints based on these categories, naturally result from how the two CVCV sequences are synchronized if the one on the C-plane is longer than the one on the V-plane. It will also be seen how the proposed structures naturally account for several processes such as liquid metathesis and deletion, vowel epenthesis, plosive fricativization, etc., while providing a means for measuring the relative likelihood of some of them on the basis of representational markedness. IntroductionConsonant clusters pose an interesting challenge for phonological analysis and theory. This concerns the way languages diverge as to the amount of phonotactic constraints they are subject to, the empirical generalizations that can be drawn from cross-linguistic diversity, and how these generalizations are handled by theoretical models. In what follows, I will first show how two basic types of clusters may be distinguished (Section 2.1), and how both types have been accounted for by representational approaches (Section 2.2).1 It will be seen that past work on the subject has moved along different lines which are all based on the notion of "licensing". It will be argued that these accounts suffer from at least one major drawback for a representational theory, as they need to turn supposedly well-formedness principles into hierarchically ordered constraints. I will then defend (Section 3) and develop (Section 4) a radically new approach to consonant phonotactics. This proposal is based on the assumption that planar segregation between consonants and vowels is a universal feature of phonological representations, and that the consonant and vowel planes may have different lengths. The major phonotactic constraints, commonly seen as involving features like [consonantal], [sonorant] or [continuant], depend on how these planes are synchronized, "sonority" being something which results from the structure, not the other way round. This theory will be shown to provide a straightforward account of a dozen well documented facts, from several generalizations on the combinatorial properties of onsets and coda+onset sequences, to such processes as liquid metathesis and deletion, vowel epenthesis or compensatory lengtheni...

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Deriving sonority from the structure, not the other way round: A Strict CV approach to consonant clusters

Carvalho

2017

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“…En la década de los noventa, Steriade (1994) realiza un nuevo análi-sis de los datos de Pike & Pike (1947). En este análisis rechaza la estructura de constituyentes en ataques.…”

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“…Cuatro años más tarde, Golston & Kehrein (1998) realizan un nuevo análisis de los datos de Pike & Pike (1947). Afirman que las sílabas del mazateco no son complejas sino simples, y que la posaspiración y posglotalización del mazateco de Huautla de Jiménez son fenómenos que pueden ser tratados respectivamente como voz murmurada y voz laringizada de la vocal.…”

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“…Los primeros trabajos tuvieron gran impacto en la lingüística moderna, pues sentaron las bases para la teoría de la constitución silábica (Pike & Pike 1947) y la teoría tonal (Pike 1948). Con base en los estudios anteriormente presentados, puede observarse que todas las variantes cuentan con diferentes tipos de fonación (oral, nasal, laringizada) y tonos.…”

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Panorama de los estudios lingüísticos sobre el mazateco

Hernández

2017

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Mazatec is a language that belongs to the Popolocan branch (Gudschinsky 1959b) of the Otomanguean family (Rensch 1976). This note is an overview of the linguistic studies about the Mazatec language, from the works of the second half of the nineteenth century, to the most recent ones.Keywords: Mazatec, Otomanguean, indigenous languages, history of mexican linguistics ResumenEl mazateco es una lengua que pertenece a la rama popolocana (Gudschinsky 1959b) de la familia otomangue (Rensch 1976). Esta nota ofrece un panorama acerca de los estudios lingüísticos sobre el mazateco, desde la segunda mitad del siglo xix hasta nuestros días.Palabras clave: mazateco, otomangue, lenguas indígenas, historia de la lingüística mexicana

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“…A rima pode ser constituída por um núcleo e uma coda como em (1), conforme Selkirk (1982), baseando-se em propostas feitas anteriormente por Pike & Pike (1947) e Fudge (1969. Na estrutura silábica do português, somente o núcleo é obrigatório, pois a língua pode apresentar sílabas com onset e/ou coda zero.…”

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A aquisição de encontros consonantais do inglês iniciados por /s/: estudo de caso com criança brasileira

Marco¹

2004

Revista De Estudos Da Linguagem

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Language acquisition studies have pointed the first language (L1) influence on this process. In a research with adolescents and adults, Fernandes (2001) and Silveira (2002) show that, in the acquisition process of English as foreign language (L2) by Brazilian Portuguese speakers, the L1 influences the L2 syllable structure acquisition. However, concerning to children, it seems that there is less infuence of L1 on the foreign language acquisition. Based on that, the aim of this paper is to analyze the word-initial /s/ clusters in English, as well as the possibility of syllable structure transference from first language to L2. The data is from a child that is still developing her phonological system and her age was 3:4 (years/months). She's acquiring Brazilian Portuguese as a first language and English, as a second.

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Immediate Constituents of Mazateco Syllables

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Deriving sonority from the structure, not the other way round: A Strict CV approach to consonant clusters

Deriving sonority from the structure, not the other way round: A Strict CV approach to consonant clusters

Panorama de los estudios lingüísticos sobre el mazateco

A aquisição de encontros consonantais do inglês iniciados por /s/: estudo de caso com criança brasileira

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