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LING 303. Phonology I vw. I CAN’T DO [LABIAL]!. Today…. Continue Tongue Body [dorsal] [±back] [±high] [±low]. Palatalized consonants [ – back]. Russian. Palatalisation. Palatalisation. Floating [ –back] targets consonants?. - j onok DIM, /ut-/ ‘duck’ vs. /ut j -onok/
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LING 303 Phonology I vw
Today… • Continue Tongue Body • [dorsal] • [±back] • [±high] • [±low]
Palatalized consonants[–back] • Russian
Floating [–back] targets consonants? • -jonok DIM, /ut-/ ‘duck’ vs. /utj-onok/ • -jonok DIM, /orjol-/ ‘eagle’ vs. /orlj-onok/ • -juga PEJOR, /vor-/ ‘thief’ vs. /vorj-uga/ • -jsk ADJ, /general-/ ‘general’ vs. /generalj-skij/ • -jsk ADJ, /volg-/ ‘Volga’ vs. /vol-skij/ • -jba ?, /sud-/ ‘judge’ vs. /sudj-ba/ ‘fate’ • -jba ?, /drug-/ ‘friend’ vs. /dru-ba/ ‘friendship’
Vowel harmony • Vowels in classical Mongolian words are all... • [–back] • [køgegyn] ‘boy’ • [køtelbyri] ‘instruction’ • [+back] • [uγuta] ‘bag’
Hungarian • Exceptional class of roots with [–back] /i, e/ which nonetheless take a [+back] suffix? • “The root morpheme has a floating [+back] feature” (Ringen and Vago 1998:399; also Clements 1977, Hulst and Smith 1985, Kiparsky 1981, etc.)
English Modern English: goose vs. geese Old English: gos vs. gosi Modern English: tooth vs. teeth Old English: toθ vs. toθi.
Karaim (Turkic, Lithuania) • ku-lr-dn ‘servant-pl-abl’ vs. kun-lr-dn ‘day-pl-abl’.
Two processes, both variable • Palatalization [–back] feature spreads from front vowel onto a preceding velar consonant which consequenly becomes palatalized. • Coronalization Switch from [dorsal, –back] to [coronal, –anterior, +distributed].
Interdisciplinary Language Research:Relevance and Application (Fall 2009 Graduate Workshops) Sound Research: Phonetics and/or/vs Phonology Friday, October 30 at 2:00 pmLanguage Research Center, CHD 419 All are welcome to attendRefreshments