Vowel elision and reduction in Bambara
| Autor: | Valentin Vydrin |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Langage, LAngues et Cultures d'Afrique (LLACAN), Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Italian Journal of Linguistics / Rivista di linguistica Italian Journal of Linguistics / Rivista di linguistica, Pacini Editore S.p.A, 2020, 32 (1), pp.103-124 HAL |
| ISSN: | 1120-2726 0390-6809 |
| Popis: | International audience; The goal of this study is to test instrumentally the hypothesis that Bambara dissyllabic feet are distributed into three types. The results of the study can be summarised as follows:— reduction and elision of a short V1 in disyllabic feet is phonetic, rather than phonological, and can be explained by phonotactics. Therefore, disyllabic feet with a short first vowel form just one type;— V1 length, although phonologically relevant, displays some instability between speakers;— in a disyllabic foot (at least when its boundaries coincide with word boundaries), length characteristics are in complementary distribution: if the first vowel is short, the second is long, and if the first vowel is long, the second is short. This phenomenon can be defined as "foot isochrony";— if the first vowel of a disyllabic foot is short, the duration of the second vowel depends on the position of the foot within the word: word-finally it is long, otherwise, it is short;— the difference between disyllabic feet types in Bambara can be exhaustively described by means of the length of the first vowel; there seems to be no need to postulate the existence of stress. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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