1. The phonetics of Southern New Guinea languagesː an overview

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dc.contributor.author Evans, Nicholas
dc.date.accessioned 2021-04-26T23:35:25Z
dc.date.available 2021-04-26T23:35:25Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.description.abstract This article provides an overview of the phonologies of Southern New Guinea languages, based on the six languages in this special issue plus two others for which JIPA illustrations have recently been published – Yelmek (Yelmek-Maklew family), Ngkolmpu, Nmbo and Nen (Yam family), Idi and Ende (Pahoturi River), Bitur (Marind-Anim branch of Trans-New Guinea) and Urama (Kiwaian branch of Trans-New Guinea). It surveys overall inventory sizes (maximal 28 consonants and 8 vowels, in Nmbo, minimal 13 consonants plus 5 vowels in Urama), and the most important segment types characteristic of the region, including retroflexion in Idi and Ende, labial-velar stops (Nen, Nmbo), rounded stops (Nmbo), relatively large liquid inventories (Pahoturi River) and prenasalised stop phonemes (Ngkolmpu, Nen, Nmbo).
dc.description.sponsorship Australian Research Council (Grants: Languages of Southern New Guinea and The Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity); the Volkswagen Foundation (DoBES project ‘Nen and Tonda’); the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Anneliese Maier Forschungspreis); the Australian National University (Professorial Setup Grant); the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL)
dc.identifier.citation Evans, Nicholas (2021)
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9979673-2-6
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24991
dc.publisher University of Hawai'i Press
dc.relation.ispartofseries LD&C Special Publication
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License
dc.subject Nen
dc.subject Nmbo
dc.subject Ngkolmpu
dc.subject Idi
dc.subject Ende
dc.subject Yelmek
dc.subject Bitur
dc.subject Urama
dc.subject labial-velar
dc.subject retroflexion
dc.title 1. The phonetics of Southern New Guinea languagesː an overview
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LD&C Special Publication No. 24: Phonetic fieldwork in Southern New Guinea