Morphologie gabaritique et apophonie dans un langage secret féminin (taqjmit) en berbère tachelhit

Lahrouchi, Mohamed; Ségéral, Philippe

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“…De la meme maniere, rien ne s'oppose a ce que l'existence d'une structure branchante soit marquee de differentes manieres en surface : la duree n'est qu'une possibility parmi d'autres. La difference entre voyelles pleines et reduites en tant qu'exposant de la longueur vocalique a ete documented en afro-asiatique par Lowenstamm (1991), pour le semitique et l'ethiopien; Bendjaballah (1995Bendjaballah ( ,2001Bendjaballah ( , 2005 et Ben Si Said (2011), pour le berbere kabyle; et Lahrouchi et Segeral (2009,2010, pour le berbere Tashelhiyt. L'encodage de la longueur vocalique par 1'ATRite (des voyelles moyennes) est le resultat de l'analyse du francais du midi de Rizzolo (2002), et le st0d en danois signale la longueur selon Larsen (1994) et Lowenstamm (1996).…”

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Voyelles longues virtuelles et réduction vocalique en coratin

Bucci

2013

Can. J. Linguist.

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The purpose of this article is to describe and analyze the reduction of unstressed vowels in Coratino, a language spoken in the Apulia region of Italy. Its vowel inventory includes seven vowels: /i, e, ε, a, ɔ, o, u/. All but /a/ are reduced to a schwa when they surface in unstressed positions. Furthermore, back and front vowels are not reduced in unstressed positions when they are adjacent to a labial consonant, or adjacent to a velar followed by a palatal. These vowels also remain non-reduced in word-initial position. Therefore, there are three contexts in which these vowels are not reduced (in stressed positions, adjacent to a consonant, and in word-initial positions). This article aims to reduce this disjunction.

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Voyelles longues virtuelles et réduction vocalique en coratin

Bucci

2013

Can. J. Linguist.

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“…This is true for the segmental material (all root-C's are either geminated or reduplicated) as well as for the structure of the template itself. The template in (3) is to be construed as resulting from the reduplication of a more basic template of the form CV (CV) CV CV, the same one originally proposed byGuerssel and Lowenstamm (1990) in the case of Classical Arabic (on a similar process of reduplication in another secret language deriving from Tashlhiyt Berber, used by women, namely Taqjmit, seeLahrouchi and Ségéral 2009). The question as to the internal structure attributed to the template in (3) is not relevant to this paper and will therefore not be further addressed.…”

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Peripheral vowels in Tashlhiyt Berber are phonologically long: Evidence from Tagnawt, a secret language used by women

Lahrouchi¹,

Ségéral²

2010

Brill's Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics

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An outstanding issue in Tashlhiyt Berber phonology is the status of the short central vowel (schwa) that appears in certain consonant clusters, and its relation to the remaining (peripheral) vowels in the language. We show that within Tagnawt, a secret language in Tashlhiyt Berber used by women, peripheral vowels are underlyingly long, in that they connect to two skeletal positions. They become unassociated when they have access to only one position. Then, depending on phonotactic conditions, this skeletal position remains empty or surfaces as schwa. In particular, it is demonstrated that Tagnawt formations are all built upon a fixed-shape template fundamentally designed to accommodate three rootconsonants. Accordingly, when the Tashlhiyt input is quadriconsonantal, one root-consonant is regularly discarded. In certain cases, however, all four consonants are maintained, except that a schwa systematically appears in one of the vocalic positions where the vowel a normally surfaces. This cannot be accounted for unless the proposal on the representation of peripheral vowels and schwa is assumed.

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“…For more details about the CVCV model, the reader is referred to Lowenstamm (1996) and Scheer (2004). Many recent works endorse this approach to syllable structure, including Bendjaballah (2001Bendjaballah ( , 2003Bendjaballah ( , and 2007, Scheer (1998, and 2011), Ségéral & Scheer (2001, Barillot (2002), Aïm (2003), Rucart (2006a, and2006b), Kula (2008), Lahrouchi (2003, and, and Ségéral (2009, and.…”

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Templates, markers and syntactic structure in Tashlhiyt Berber

Lahrouchi

2013

Lingua

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International audienceOne of the puzzling aspects of the Berber languages is the nature of the construct state and the cooccurrence restrictions it undergoes with certain grammatical morphemes. In particular, the reason why the construct state marker w- never occurs with the gender marker t- remains unclear, despite of several studies mostly syntactic. This paper argues that the construct state marker w- and the feminine marker t- compete for the same templatic position. Within the standard DP projection, it is proposed that a templatic CV site hosts gender t- under the nP. When raised to D, this site has no C position available for the construct state w-, yielding forms where only the feminine marker is realized. The same reasoning holds in the causative imperfective formations. The association of the causative prefix with the templatic site under the vP explains the absence of aspect markers in the verb. Extended to the case of Classical Arabic verb conjugation, the competition hypothesis allows us to explain why reflexive n- never co-occurs with medial consonant gemination; though semantically viable, nkassara 'it shuttered' is ruled out because reflexive n-, generated lower in the structure than intensive gemination, fills the only C position provided by the derivational CV. The advocated analysis has implications for the way syntax, morphology and phonology interact: templates are indeed argued to mediate the interaction between components of Grammar. Handled in syntactic structure, templates allow unifying standard phonological, morphological and syntactic accounts of the co-occurrence restrictions examined in this paper

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Morphologie gabaritique et apophonie dans un langage secret féminin (taqjmit) en berbère tachelhit

Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

Voyelles longues virtuelles et réduction vocalique en coratin

Voyelles longues virtuelles et réduction vocalique en coratin

Peripheral vowels in Tashlhiyt Berber are phonologically long: Evidence from Tagnawt, a secret language used by women

Templates, markers and syntactic structure in Tashlhiyt Berber

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