2. A phonetic description of Yelmek
| dc.contributor.author | Gregor, Tina | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-26T23:35:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-04-26T23:35:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper provides a first description of the phonetics and phonology of a language from the Yelmek-Maklew family, a language family without a genealogical link to any other language family in New Guinea or elsewhere. The variety under consideration in this paper is used by people from the village of Wanam, located in the Papuan Province on the Indonesian side of New Guinea. Wanam is the northernmost of the four villages attributed to the Yelmek branch of the family (ISO 639-3:jel, glottocode: yelm1242). The variety in question has 13 consonant phonemes and 7 vowel phonemes. The vowel inventory includes a phonemic schwa, which is distinct from the epenthetic schwa that is used to split illicit consonant cluster. Noteworthy suprasegmental features include the absence of word-level stress and the fact that interrogative and declarative utterances have the same basic pitch contour. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The Australian National University; the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Gregor, Tina (2021) | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-0-9979673-2-6 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24992 | |
| 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 | Yelmek | |
| dc.subject | Papuan languages | |
| dc.subject | West Papua | |
| dc.subject | epenthesis | |
| dc.title | 2. A phonetic description of Yelmek |