Proto-Mazatec Numerals

Kirk, Paul L.

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“…White Hmong (Lyman 1974, Smalley 1976, Huffman 1987, Ratliff 1992 (Pike and Pike 1947, Kirk 1966, Bull 1983, 1984, Steriade 1992, Silverman 1994a, Kirk, Ladefoged, and Ladefoged 1993, Silverman, Blankenship, Kirk, and Ladefoged 1995:…”

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Laryngeal complexity in Otomanguean vowels

Silverman

1997

Phonology

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Linguistic sound systems necessarily possess contrastive values that are sufficiently distinct from one another that their individual characters may be learned by the listener. In this way, any given value in any given system fulfils its functional role of rendering forms distinct which differ in meaning. Articulatory, aerodynamic, acoustic and auditory constraints serve to mediate between such sound–meaning correspondences in non-trivial ways. Indeed, if it can be shown that the sound patterns of language are in part explainable by these physical systems, then students of linguistic sound systems would do well to study in detail the phonetic base. Consider an example case. Laryngeal gestures and supralaryngeal gestures are by and large articulatorily independent of each other. Thus, for example, a voiceless aspirated stop consists of an oral occlusion, cued by silence, as well as an articulatorily independent laryngeal abduction, cued by broadband noise. Were the phonetic realisation of these two gestures strictly simultaneous, the cues signalling the laryngeal abduction would not be perceived as such by the listener (*[ot]). A listener can tell that there is no voicing, but cannot recover more specific information regarding the state of the glottis during oral closure. Stated simply, the full closure here reduces the acoustic output to zero. With zero acoustic energy, no source information other than silence is transmitted to the listener. However, upon staggering the two gestures, the otherwise obscured information is rendered salient.

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Laryngeal complexity in Otomanguean vowels

Silverman

1997

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“…the 6633 single words, is grouped by etymon in several hundred tables to be found throughout Kirk's Ph. D. dissertation (Kirk 1966). All the etyma and the author's statements on historical phonetics of the Mazatec dialects are justified and exemplified by Kirk through the tables and in detailed discussion.…”

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“…Our atlas is entirely based on Kirk's (1966) comparative monograph. We shall first explain where we started, working out our own atlas of Mazatec dialects according to Kirk's data.…”

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The ALMaz (Atlas Lingüístico Mazateco): from geolinguistic data processing to typological traits

Léonard

Dell'Aquila²,

Gaillard-Corvaglia³

2012

STUF - Language Typology and Universals

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Mazatec (Popolocan, Eastern Otomanguean) became world-renowned following an article by Pike & Pike (1947) and the famous chapter VIII in Pike (1948) on the Huautla variety, which inspired several other seminal studies by on this extremely relevant language as far as phonological typology is concerned. However the early monographs and sketches, which have had a major impact on modern linguistics (laying the premises for the syllabic constituency theory, the theory of tones and tone sandhi as well as their functions in inflectional systems), only take into account a minute proportion of this language's inner diversity. The ALMaz project is an attempt to both revisit second-hand data on Mazatec varieties all over the area where it is densely spoken (especially using Kirk 1966 lists of over 700 cognates as a data base), and to gather and process new data on Mazatec diatopic and diastratic variation, using computational geolinguistics.

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“…Paul Kirk (1966;1970; continúa la reconstrucción del protomazateco que inicialmente había elaborado Sarah Gudschinsky (1953;1955;1956a;1958a;1959b). En su tesis doctoral -Proto-Mazatec phonology (1966)-estudia doce variedades de mazateco: Mazatlán de Flores (Mz), San Bartolomé Ayautla (Ay), San Juan Chiquihuitlán (Cq), Jalapa de Díaz (Ja), Santo Domingo del Río (Do), Huautla de Jiménez (Hu), Santa María Jiotes (Ji), San Miguel Soyaltepec (So), San Pedro Ixcatlán (Ix), San Miguel Huautla (Mg), San Lorenzo Cuaunecuiltitla (Lo) y San Jerónimo Tecóatl (Te).…”

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Panorama de los estudios lingüísticos sobre el mazateco

Hernández

2017

CLECM

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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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Proto-Mazatec Numerals

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Laryngeal complexity in Otomanguean vowels

Laryngeal complexity in Otomanguean vowels

The ALMaz (Atlas Lingüístico Mazateco): from geolinguistic data processing to typological traits

Panorama de los estudios lingüísticos sobre el mazateco

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