The Origins of Yapese Glottalization
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2024
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Yapese is a phonologically divergent Austronesian language. One aspect of this, glottalization, is found in only one other language in the Pacific. The historical development of glottalization in languages is often resistant to explanation; it appears to be primary in most language families where it occurs.
This dissertation seeks to determine the history of these segments in Yapese. I found four distinct processes which create glottalized consonants in Yapese. These are glottalization by fusion, glottalization from laryngeal spreading, glottalization as sound symbolism, and glottalization as a result of loan phonology. Most forms, however, resist explanation, given the extensive lexical innovations of Yapese.
This dissertation also revises Ross’ (1996) original reconstruction of the inherited Proto-Oceanic phonology and lexicon of Yapese, providing updated consonant correspondences, and adding vowel correspondences, in addition to demonstrating the origin of the glottalized consonants.
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Linguistics, glottalization, historical phonology, Yapese
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261 pages
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