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The Wuvulu Velar Obstruent Puzzle Solved
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Title: | The Wuvulu Velar Obstruent Puzzle Solved |
Authors: | Hafford, James |
Keywords: | linguistics |
Date Issued: | 01 Aug 2012 |
Publisher: | University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Department of Linguistics |
Citation: | Hafford, James. 2012. The Wuvulu Velar Obstruent Puzzle Solved. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Working Papers in Linguistics 43(2). |
Series: | University of Hawai‘I at Mānoa Working Papers in Linguistics |
Abstract: | Exuberant free variation of the velar obstruents [.], [k], [x], and [.] has been a long-standing puzzle in Wuvulu phonology. Blust (2008) made progress toward a solution by recognizing the allophony of [.] and [x], and by eliminating [.] from the analysis. The present paper claims to complete the solution with two compelling arguments that are crucial to the problem: (1) neither [k] nor /k/ is associated with the velar allophones [x] and [.], and (2) oddly, /r/ is perhaps the best candidate for the phonemic form of the velars. This paper also evaluates Blust’s (2008) correlation of the stricture features of [x] and [.] with the height of adjacent vowels, and suggests that the correlation could be generalized to include /l/ and its allophones [l] and [d]. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/73241 |
Rights: | Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License |
Volume: | 2012 |
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