The Great Chukchansi Yokuts Iambic Conspiracy

Guekguezian, Peter Ara

doi:10.3765/amp.v2i0.3747

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“…The constant template shape is a (LH́) foot, no matter the template-triggering affix. Long vowels and coda consonants both count for weight in Chukchansi, so /CVː/ and /CVC/ syllables are heavy; open syllables with a short vowel (/CV/) are light (Guekguezian 2011, following Archangeli 1991 for Yowlumne). Moreover, the (LH́) foot is the optimal disyllable in Chukchansi, as it is in any language with iambic parsing (Prince 1990, Kager 1993, Hayes 1995).…”

Section: Templatic Morphology In Chukchansimentioning

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“…To gain a clearer view of Chukchansi stress, I conducted a small acoustic investigation with a single speaker (Guekguezian 2016). Using Mello's (2012) finding that pitch (F0) and intensity peaks are phonetic correlates of stress in Chukchansi (as well as in many other languages, e.g.…”

Section: Templatic Morphology In Chukchansimentioning

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“…Antepenultimate light ([CV]) syllables and final syllables never form stress peaks. Guekguezian (2016) interprets this as follows: the penultimate and any preceding heavy syllables are stressed, and other syllables (light preceding the penultimate and final) are unstressed. These findings do not depart from Mello's (2012) native-speaker judgements on primary stress; however, I could not elicit additional, reliable judgements.…”

Section: Templatic Morphology In Chukchansimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…I will argue in this paper that iambic feet are optimal in Chukchansi, based on evidence from phonotactic vowel epenthesis, lexical root statistics and a small-scale acoustic study (Guekguezian 2016). Templatic morphology is the appearance of optimal prosodic structure .…”

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Templates as the interaction of recursive word structure and prosodic well-formedness

Guekguezian

2017

Phonology

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Templatic morphology involves the appearance of a fixed shape on a morpheme in a specific morphological context. This paper makes two claims: the morphological context of a template is syntactically cyclic, resulting in recursive prosodic word structure, and the shape of a template results from prosodic well-formedness conditions on the internal prosodic word. Templatic morphology in Chukchansi Yokuts illustrates these claims: affixes that trigger templates transfer the root to the phonology before other material is transferred, so that the root forms a prosodic word which is internal to the whole word. Roots with one underlying vowel are augmented to meet a disyllabic minimality requirement on prosodic words; the resulting disyllable forms a light–heavy iamb, to optimally satisfy Chukchansi parsing requirements. Templatic morphology falls out from the predictable interaction of the syntax–phonology interface and general phonological properties of a language, and needs no special apparatus or diacritics.

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Section: Templatic Morphology In Chukchansimentioning

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Section: Templatic Morphology In Chukchansimentioning

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Templates as the interaction of recursive word structure and prosodic well-formedness

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2017

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“…The high vowel∼zero alternation is categorical and is insensitive to segmental or morphological factors, occurring with both front, in (20), and back, in ( 18)-( 19), vowels and with both verbs, in ( 18)-( 19), and nouns, in (20). This alternation has been analyzed as deletion (Collord 1968), epenthesis (Archangeli 1991, Guekguezian 2011, or both (Newman 1944, Kuroda 1967. Throughout this Illustration, we assume epenthesis, i.e.…”

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Chukchansi Yokuts

Adisasmito-Smith

Guekguezian

Wyatt³

2022

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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Chukchansi belongs to the Yokuts language family (ISO 639 code: yok) ancestrally spoken in the San Joaquin valley of Central California and in the adjacent foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The headquarters of the Chukchansi tribe is located in Coarsegold and many members of the tribe live in and around Madera and Fresno counties. As shown in the map in Figure 1, there are three major territories of the Yokuts: Northern Valley Yokuts, Foothill Yokuts, and Southern Valley Yokuts. While the territory of the Chukchansi is in the foothills area, the dialect is linguistically Northern Valley (Whistler & Golla 1986), as shown in Figure 2. Yawelmani, a Yokuts language that has been a subject of extensive linguistic research (e.g. Newman 1944, Archangeli 1983, Weigel 2005), is a dialect of the Southern Valley Yokuts. It is unclear to what extent Yokuts varieties are mutually intelligible. Yokuts is often considered to be a part of a larger Penutian language family (e.g. Dixon & Kroeber 1913, Sapir 1921, DeLancey & Golla 1997). While the status of Penutian as a macro-family is disputed, Yokuts is very likely related to the Miwok and Costanoan language families of California (Callaghan 1997).

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The Great Chukchansi Yokuts Iambic Conspiracy

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