Finnish inserted vowels: a case of phonologized excrescence

Autor:	Robin Karlin
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Linguistics and Language 05 social sciences 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Excrescence 0305 other medical science Psychology 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Linguistics
Zdroj:	Nordic Journal of Linguistics. 45:49-79
ISSN:	1502-4717 0332-5865
Popis:	In this paper, I examine a case of vowel insertion found in Savo and Pohjanmaa dialects of Finnish that is typically called “epenthesis”, but which demonstrates characteristics of both phonetic excrescence and phonological epenthesis. Based on a phonological analysis paired with an acoustic corpus study, I argue that Finnish vowel insertion is the mixed result of phonetic excrescence and the phonologization of these vowels, and is related to second-mora lengthening, another dialectal phenomenon. I propose a gestural model of second-mora lengthening that would generate vowel insertion in its original phonetic state. The link to second-mora lengthening provides a unified account that addresses both the dialectal and phonological distribution of the phenomenon, which have not been linked in previous literature.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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