On the Internal Structure of Tashlhiyt Berber Triconsonantal Roots

Lahrouchi, Mohamed

doi:10.1162/ling.2010.41.2.255

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“…on-line adaptation) as a coronal tap. Relying on previous work on the structure of verbal roots in Berber (Lahrouchi 2009;2010), I will show that Berber phonology provides speakers with enough evidence to analyze the French rhotic as a sonorant.…”

Section: Phonology Vs Phonetics In Loanword Adaptation: An Overviewmentioning

confidence: 71%

Not as you R: Adapting the French rhotic into Berber

Lahrouchi

2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This article examines the adaptation of the French rhotic in Berber. In loanwords borrowed from French, the uvular fricative is systematically interpreted as a coronal tap, despite the fact that Berber has phonemic /ʁ/ and /χ/. It is argued that this phenomenon is determined by phonological rather than phonetic factors. It is shown that Tashlhiyt Berber speakers, including monolinguals, are able to identify the French r as a sonorant, based on their native phonology, where many co-occurrence restrictions are analyzed in terms of sonority-sensitive dependency relations between the most sonorous segment and its neighboring segments.

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Section: Phonology Vs Phonetics In Loanword Adaptation: An Overviewmentioning

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Not as you R: Adapting the French rhotic into Berber

Lahrouchi

2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…But the data analyzed were limited to segments bounded by morphological boundaries. [10] provided a brief description of some of the constraints accounting for the distribution of sonorants and obstruents in 220 verbs (i.e. CC, CCC, and CCV).…”

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The structure of vowelless verbal roots in Tashlhiyt Berber

Orzechowska¹,

Ridouane²

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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At the phonological level, Tashlhiyt Berber features remarkably long strings of consonants with no intervening vowels [5, 22]. Past research on the topic has investigated the structure of syllabic constituents, suggesting that in spite of its acknowledged complexity, the language favours syllable structure with simple onsets [4, 5, 23]. In this preliminary work, we upturn the traditional idea of evaluating syllable formedness, and provide a feature-based analysis of vowelless verbal roots. Methodologically, the study draws on bottom-up approaches to phonotactics [16, 17] which lead to the formulation of new preferences on the basis of a qualitative and quantitative description of segments forming clusters. The identification of such preferences has the potential of revealing phonological properties which motivate the unique patterning of consonant sequences in the language.

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“…(See also Jebbour, and Bensoukas, . See Lahrouchi, , for a different account where imperfective gemination is analyzed as a templatic‐based phenomenon resulting from morphological activity at the skeletal tier).…”

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confidence: 99%