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LING 303

LING 303. Phonology I vw. I CAN’T DO [LABIAL]!. Today…. Continue Tongue Body [dorsal] [±back] [±high] [±low]. Palatalized consonants [ – back]. Russian. Palatalisation. Palatalisation. Floating [ –back] targets consonants?. - j onok DIM, /ut-/ ‘duck’ vs. /ut j -onok/

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LING 303

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  1. LING 303 Phonology I vw

  2. I CAN’T DO [LABIAL]!

  3. Today… • Continue Tongue Body • [dorsal] • [±back] • [±high] • [±low]

  4. Palatalized consonants[–back] • Russian

  5. Palatalisation

  6. Palatalisation

  7. Floating [–back] targets consonants? • -jonok DIM, /ut-/ ‘duck’ vs. /utj-onok/ • -jonok DIM, /orjol-/ ‘eagle’ vs. /orlj-onok/ • -juga PEJOR, /vor-/ ‘thief’ vs. /vorj-uga/ • -jsk ADJ, /general-/ ‘general’ vs. /generalj-skij/ • -jsk ADJ, /volg-/ ‘Volga’ vs. /vol-skij/ • -jba ?, /sud-/ ‘judge’ vs. /sudj-ba/ ‘fate’ • -jba ?, /drug-/ ‘friend’ vs. /dru-ba/ ‘friendship’

  8. Zoque

  9. Vowel harmony • Vowels in classical Mongolian words are all... • [–back] • [køgegyn] ‘boy’ • [køtelbyri] ‘instruction’ • [+back] • [uγuta] ‘bag’

  10. Hungarian

  11. Hungarian

  12. Hungarian • Exceptional class of roots with [–back] /i, e/ which nonetheless take a [+back] suffix? • “The root morpheme has a floating [+back] feature” (Ringen and Vago 1998:399; also Clements 1977, Hulst and Smith 1985, Kiparsky 1981, etc.)

  13. Chamorro (Marianas Islands)

  14. English Modern English: goose vs. geese Old English: gos vs. gosi Modern English: tooth vs. teeth Old English: toθ vs. toθi.

  15. Ainu (Japan): transitivizer

  16. Hanoi vs. Hue Vietnamese

  17. Hanoi vs. Hue Vietnamese

  18. Hanoi vs. Hue Vietnamese

  19. Hanoi vs. Hue Vietnamese

  20. Hue Vietnamese

  21. Karaim (Turkic, Lithuania) • ku-lr-dn ‘servant-pl-abl’ vs. kun-lr-dn ‘day-pl-abl’.

  22. Acadian French

  23. Two processes, both variable • Palatalization [–back] feature spreads from front vowel onto a preceding velar consonant which consequenly becomes palatalized. • Coronalization Switch from [dorsal, –back] to [coronal, –anterior, +distributed].

  24. Vowels

  25. Interdisciplinary Language Research:Relevance and Application (Fall 2009 Graduate Workshops) Sound Research: Phonetics and/or/vs Phonology Friday, October 30 at 2:00 pmLanguage Research Center, CHD 419 All are welcome to attendRefreshments

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