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Words without vowels : phonetic and phonological evidence from Tashlhiyt Berber

  • This article deals with the Tashlhiyt dialect of Berber (henceforth TB) spoken in the southern part of Morocco. In TB, words may consist entirely of consonants without vowels and sometimes of only voiceless obstruents, e.g. tft#tstt "you rolled it (fem)". In this study we have carried out acoustic, video-endoscopic and phonological analyses to answer the following question: is schwa, which may function as syllabic, a segment at the level of phonetic representations in TB? Video-endoscopic films were made of one male native speaker of TB, producing a list of forms consisting entirely of voiceless obstruents. The same list was produced by 7 male native speakers of TB for the acoustic analysis. The phonological analysis is based on the behaviour of vowels with respect to the phonological rule of assibilation. This study shows the absence of schwa vowels in forms consisting of voiceless obstruents.

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Author:Rachid Ridouane
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-308423
URL:http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/fileadmin/material/ZASPiL_Volltexte/zp28/zaspil28-ridouane.pdf
ISSN:1435-9588
ISSN:0947-7055
Parent Title (English):Papers on phonetics and phonology : The articulation, acoustics and perception of consonants, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin; ZAS papers in linguistics ; Vol. 28
Publisher:Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
Place of publication:Berlin
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2013/11/14
Year of first Publication:2002
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2013/11/14
GND Keyword:Berbersprachen; Phonetik; Phonologie
Volume:28
Page Number:14
First Page:93
Last Page:110
HeBIS-PPN:385073879
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 49 Andere Sprachen / 490 Andere Sprachen
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Phonetik/Phonologie / Phonetics/Phonology
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Biolinguistik / Biolinguistics
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte:ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 28 = Papers on phonetics and phonology : The articulation, acoustics and perception of consonants
:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306694
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht