Kala Phonology in a Typological and Regional Context

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dc.contributor.advisor Easterday, Shelece
dc.contributor.author Ransdell-Green, Margaret Neal
dc.contributor.department Linguistics
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-23T23:57:39Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-23T23:57:39Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.description.degree Ph.D.
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10125/104687
dc.subject Linguistics
dc.subject Language
dc.subject Austronesian
dc.subject Language documentation
dc.subject Papua New Guinea
dc.subject Phonological typology
dc.subject Phonology
dc.subject Typology
dc.title Kala Phonology in a Typological and Regional Context
dc.type Thesis
dcterms.abstract The Kala language is a Western Oceanic (Austronesian) language spoken in Papua New Guinea. This dissertation provides a phonological sketch of all four dialects of Kala, as well as detailed quantitative acoustic phonetic and phonological studies performed on three dynamic processes found in Southern Kala. These include vowel deletion, vowel laxing, and nasality and nasalization of vowels. All of these processes show unusual and unpredicted characteristics that place them in liminal spaces between cross-linguistic categories. Finally, a wider context is provided through a phonological typology survey of 50 nearby languages, illuminating Kala phonology's unique position amongst its relatives and neighbors.
dcterms.extent 244 pages
dcterms.language en
dcterms.publisher University of Hawai'i at Manoa
dcterms.rights All UHM dissertations and theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission from the copyright owner.
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