On one-vowel systems

Allen, W. Sidney

doi:10.1016/0024-3841(64)90012-9

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“…Unfortunately, if there were any in the past, all of them are nowadays either endangered or dead, making their corpora unavailable. In addition, the classification of Kabardian and Abaza with a two-vowel language was judged to be questionable [27,30,31]. For this reason, below we would focus our attention on Arabic, which is known as a major language with the only three kinds of vowels, /u/, /a/, and /i/ [29], where discrimination between the short and the long vowels is not included.…”

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Frustration in the Pattern Formation of Polysyllabic Words

Hayata

2017

Front. Phys.

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A novel frustrated system is given for the analysis of (m + 1)-syllabled vocal sounds for languages with the m-vowel system, where the varieties of vowels are assumed to be m (m ≥ 2). The necessary and sufficient condition for observing the sound frustration is that the configuration of m vowels in an m-syllabled word has a preference for the "repulsive" type, in which there is no duplication of an identical vowel. For languages that meet this requirement, no (m + 1)-syllabled word can in principle select the present type because at most m different vowels are available and consequently the duplicated use of an identical vowel is inevitable. For languages showing a preference for the "attractive" type, where an identical vowel aggregates in a word, there arises no such conflict. In this paper, we first elucidate for Arabic with m = 3 how to deal with the conflicting situation, where a statistical approach based on the chi-square testing is employed. In addition to the conventional three-vowel system, analyses are made also for Russian, where a polysyllabic word contains both a stressed and an indeterminate vowel. Through the statistical analyses the selection scheme for quadrisyllabic configurations is found to be strongly dependent on the parts of speech as well as the gender of nouns. In order to emphasize the relevance to the sound model of binary oppositions, analyzed results of Greek verbs are also given.

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Frustration in the Pattern Formation of Polysyllabic Words

Hayata

2017

Front. Phys.

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“…Conversely, for vowels, there is a minimal vertical vowel system. Allen (1965) views Abaza, which is in a dialectical relationship with Abkhaz, as monovocalic, and assumes only /a/ as a phoneme. This type of vowel structure also resembles the result elicited in PIE from the laryngeal theory (for example , Martinet 1987: 137ff.…”

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George Hewitt, <i><b>Abkhaz: A Comprehensive Self-Tutor.</b></i> 331pp. Lincom Student Grammars 3. München: LINCOM Europa. 2010.

Yanagisawa

2015

JSEES

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“…The Kabardian vowels are of unique interest for the typology of vowel systems since, paradoxically, they are invoked by both sides in the debate concerning the status of systems smaller than three phonemes (Trubetzkoy 1939, Jakobson 1942, Allen 1965; Szemerenyi 1967, Gamkrelidze 1968, Kuipers 1986, Kumaxov 1984, particularly the controversial one-vowel proposal for Proto-Indo-European (e.g. Allen and Gamkrelidze in favour, Szemerenyi against).…”

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“…In the meantime, a one-phonome solution has been proposed for Abaza by Allen (1965), and two-phoneme solutions for Old Adyghe (Shengelia 1983), for common Proto-Circassian and for some modem Circassian dialects (Smeets 198490, the other modem dialects getting the vertical three-phoneme solution). Smeets ( 1984532) also records a growing tendency for loanwords not to be adapted to Circassian phonology, and he predicts that Circassian vowel systems will become much larger within a few decades.…”

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Vertical, Monovocalic and Other “Impossible” Vowel Systems: A Review of the Articulation of the Kabardian Vowels

Wood

1991

Studia Linguistica

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The North West Caucasian language, Kabardian, has become famous for its minimum vowel system, for the controversy concerning the analysis of its vowel phonemes, and for the central role of that analysis in phoneme theory generally and the laryngeal theory in particular. Phonetically, Kabardian is interesting for the extensive assimilation of its few vowel phonemes to the surrounding consonants. Two published descriptions of these assimilations are compared in this article, and the articulatory processes involved are reinterpreted in terms of gestures that shape and tune the vocal tract, as an alternative to the Bell model of vowel articulation. The assimilations are more complex than was expected, some vowel allophones not acquiring articulatory components present in the environments, others appearing to acquire components not present in the environments. It is suggested that this can be explained by the spectral ambiguity of some palatovelar and pharyngovelar (uvular) configurations.

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On one-vowel systems

Cited by 9 publications

References 3 publications

Frustration in the Pattern Formation of Polysyllabic Words

Frustration in the Pattern Formation of Polysyllabic Words

George Hewitt, <i><b>Abkhaz: A Comprehensive Self-Tutor.</b></i> 331pp. Lincom Student Grammars 3. München: LINCOM Europa. 2010.

Vertical, Monovocalic and Other “Impossible” Vowel Systems: A Review of the Articulation of the Kabardian Vowels

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