Non-moraic geminates in Leti

Hume, Elizabeth; Muller, Jennifer S.; Engelenhoven, Aone van

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“…Broselow et al 1995;F. Al-Tamimi 2004) or other languages (Tranel 1991;Hume et al 1997;Esposito and Di Benedetto 1999;Podesva 2000;Hassan 2002;Ringen and Vago 2011). As Ham (2001) points out, factors such as whether a language allows closed syllable shortening, whether there are constraints on quantity in VC sequences, or whether timing is syllable or mora based (as evidenced by temporal spacing between vowel onsets) all play a role.…”

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“…Phonological length is induced from the timing tier; however, this does not specify weight, which is a major distinction between skeletal and mo raic approaches. Variations on this representation include a two-root node representation which can arguably explain the occurrence of a geminate split, e.g., by epenthesis (McCarthy 1988;Selkirk 1990;Ringen and Vago 2011) or of initial geminates (Hume et al 1997).…”

Section: Phonological Representation Of Medial Geminatesmentioning

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“…This account works well for LA (see Section 4 on gemination in LA below), a quantity-sensitive language in which syllable weight governs stress patterns and minimal word structure. However, Moraic Theory poses problems for languages like Leti, Malayalam, Ngalakgan, and Selkup, where syllables closed with a geminate are considered light (Tranel 1991;Hume et al 1997;Baker 2008;Ringen and Vago 2011). This has led Hume et al (1997) to suggest that geminates are inherently non-moraic, while Broselow et al (1997) suggests a solution using mora-sharing with the preceding vowel.…”

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Geminate timing in Lebanese Arabic: the relationship between phonetic timing and phonological structure

Khattab

Al-Tamimi

2014

Laboratory Phonology

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This study investigates medial gemination patterns in Lebanese Arabic (LA). It offers an account of the duration patterns of quantity distinction for vowels and consonants in LA by using the most comprehensive dataset for this variety, and for Arabic in general, so far in terms of the number of speakers (20), the consonant types examined (24), the inspection of vowels preceding and following the consonant in durational analyses, and the inclusion of male and female speakers. The main aim is to show correspondence between phonetic timing in LA and phonological accounts of syllabic structure that are based on moraic weight (Hayes 1989;Broselow 1995;McCarthy and Prince 1995). The study extends predictions of mora-sharing in disyllables with medial clusters that are preceded by a long vowel (e.g., /ˈmaal.ħa/ 'salty-FEM-SG') to comparable syllables with a medial geminate (e.g., /ˈmaal.la/ 'bored-FEM-SG'), which have not been investigated in Arabic before. It shows that vowel shortening preceding medial geminates affects phonologically long but not short vowels, downplaying the commonly referred to closed-syllable shortening effect as the main reason for this phenomenon (Maddieson 1997). Instead, an account based on the interface between phonetic and phonological effects on compensatory vowel shortening offers better predictions.

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Geminate timing in Lebanese Arabic: the relationship between phonetic timing and phonological structure

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Al-Tamimi

2014

Laboratory Phonology

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“…All consonants have geminated counterparts, except for β (Hume, Muller & van Engelenhoven 1997). For instance, in the compound nariβa 'he keeps on his lap' and βali 'too' , we would expect *nariββali but the attested form is nariβali.…”

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“…It is not the aim of this paper to discuss metathesis at length, but to provide as much information as is necessary to understand reduplication. The interested reader is referred to van der Hulst & van Engelenhoven (1995), Hume (1997) and Bonthuis (2001) for an extensive and solid analysis about Leti metathesis in an OT framework. In addition to alternating word forms, as described above, metathesis is applied in concatenation.…”

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Input-Reduplicant correspondence in Leti

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Engelenhoven

2011

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The Representation of Vowel Length

Odden¹

2011

The Blackwell Companion to Phonology

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Length is the phonological correlate of durational differences between sounds, tied to the phonological concept “quantity.” The concept of length usually considers duration segmentally, attributing length to particular segments (the vowel or consonant is the locus of the property “long” or “short,” and not the syllable, foot, or word). Length being a phonological attribute, distinctions are discrete mental categories, not physical measurement, and, like most phonological attributes in generative theories, length is traditionally treated binarily.

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Non-moraic geminates in Leti

Cited by 56 publications

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Geminate timing in Lebanese Arabic: the relationship between phonetic timing and phonological structure

Geminate timing in Lebanese Arabic: the relationship between phonetic timing and phonological structure

Input-Reduplicant correspondence in Leti

The Representation of Vowel Length

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