One Case of Contrast Evolution in the Yurok Vowel System

Autor:	Juliette Blevins
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	Sound change Linguistics and Language Vowel Phonological change Contrast (music) Psychology Language and Linguistics Linguistics
Zdroj:	International Journal of American Linguistics. 69:135-150
ISSN:	1545-7001 0020-7071
Popis:	This paper examines a case of contrast evolution in Yurok, an Algic language. Former *e has split into two vowels, e and a, due to phonetically conditioned vowel lowering which was rendered opaque by conditioned loss of /h/. Analyzing all instances of Yurok a and a: as reflexes of *e and *e: provides new insights into verbal paradigms and morphologically related forms. This analysis also has potential implications for the reconstruction of Proto‐Ritwan. The pre‐Yurok basic four‐vowel system may directly reflect an earlier four‐vowel system in Proto‐Ritwan.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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