Vowel fronting, raising, and backing in Luzon and north-central Sulawesi

Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Jason William Lobel¹ 

[1] University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu;

关键词: philippines;    indonesia;    luzon;    sulawesi;    vowel shifts;    vowel raising;    vowel fronting;    vowel backing;    phonology;    historical linguistics.;   

DOI  :  10.17510/wacana.v22i1.1028

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article presents an overview of four shifts – low vowel fronting, low vowel backing, back vowel fronting, and mid vowel raising – found in a number of languages on or near the Pacific coast of Luzon in the Philippines and in north-central Sulawesi in Indonesia. A more extensive illustration of low vowel fronting is given for Umiray Dumaget than has previously been made available, and a second, sporadic correspondence in Umiray Dumaget is shown to be only irregular and unconditioned. Interactions with Philippine-type morphology are also shown to result in synchronically productive alternations in Umiray Dumaget and several of the Mongondow-Gorontalo languages.

【 授权许可】

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