5. Phonetics and phonology of Idi
5. Phonetics and phonology of Idi
dc.contributor.author | Schokkin, Dineke | |
dc.contributor.author | Gast, Volker | |
dc.contributor.author | Evans, Nicholas | |
dc.contributor.author | Döhler, Christian | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-26T23:35:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-04-26T23:35:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper provides a first description of the phonetics and phonology of Idi (Pahoturi River; ISO 639-3: idi, glottocode: idii1243) as spoken by about 1,000 people in the villages of Dimsisi and Sibidiri, located in the Morehead District of Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Idi has a fairly large inventory of 21 consonant phonemes and 8 vowel phonemes. As with other languages spoken in the region, the two central vowels show a hybrid status and could be analysed as sometimes phonemic and sometimes epenthetic. Other noteworthy characteristics are the presence of vowel harmony, voiced and voiceless retroflex plosives/affricates, nasality as a “floating” feature, and coarticulated labial-velar plosives, although the latter most likely originated as loan phonemes from Nen. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | The Volkswagen Foundation’s DoBeS program; the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Anneliese-Maier Forschungspreis); the Australian Research Council (Discovery Project ‘Languages of Southern New Guinea’, Grant No. DP110100307; Laureate Project ‘The Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity’, Grant No. FL130100111; ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Grant No. E140100095) | |
dc.identifier.citation | Schokkin, Dineke, Volker Gast, Nicholas Evans & Christian Döhler (2021) | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-0-9979673-2-6 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24995 | |
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 | Idi | |
dc.subject | Papuan languages | |
dc.subject | epenthesis | |
dc.subject | retroflexion | |
dc.subject | vowel harmony | |
dc.subject | segmental phonology | |
dc.title | 5. Phonetics and phonology of Idi |