The Arandic subgroup of Australian languages

Koch, Harold

doi:10.1075/cilt.249.10koc

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“…One of the most striking sound changes affecting a number of Australian languages is word initial weakening and the loss of stops consonants-a process affecting bilabial, laminal, and velar obstruents but to the exclusion of apicals (Blevins, 2001;Koch, 2004). An additional set of well established historical changes concern languages that formerly possessed a two-way stop contrast.…”

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A replicable acoustic measure of lenition and the nature of variability in Gurindji stops

Ennever

Meakins

Round

2017

Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology

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An automated method is presented for the commensurable, reproducible measurement of duration and lenition of segment types ranging from fully occluded stops to highly lenited variants, in acoustic data. The method is motivated with respect to the relationship between acoustic and articulatory phonetics and, through subsequent evaluation, is argued to correspond well to articulation. It is then applied to the phonemic stops of casual speech in Gurindji (Pama-Nyungan, Australia) to investigate the nature of their articulatory targets. The degree of stop lenition is found to vary widely. Contrary to expectations, no evidence is found of a positive effect on lenition due to word-medial (relative to word-initial) position, beyond that attributable to duration; nor do non-coronals lenite more than their apical counterparts, which freely lenite along a continuum towards taps. No significant effect is found of preceding or following vocalic environment. Taken together, the observed lenition, duration, and peak intensity velocities are argued to be inconsistent with a single, fully-occluded articulatory 'stop' target which is undershot at short durations, rather targets can be understood to span a range or 'window' of values in the sense of Keating (1990), from fully-occluded stop-like targets to more approximantlike targets. It is an open question to what degree the patterns found in Gurindji are language particular, or can be related to the organization of obstruent systems in Australian languages more broadly. Precisely comparable studies of additional languages will be especially valuable in addressing these questions and others, and are possible using the method we introduce.

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Section: Place Of Articulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A replicable acoustic measure of lenition and the nature of variability in Gurindji stops

Ennever

Meakins

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2017

Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology

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“…The departures from the general Australian patterns are summarized by Koch (2004: 132Á133; see also Breen 2001;Breen & Pensalfini 1999;Henderson 1998). These departures are set out in example (13).…”

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Prepalatals in Arandic

Harvey¹

2011

Australian Journal of Linguistics

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This paper considers the phonological analysis of a phonetic sequence [Vowel'High front vowel'Consonant], generally referred to under the term 'prepalatal', in Arandic. There are four hypotheses as to the possible phonological status of this sequence. Each of these hypotheses has advantages and disadvantages. This paper shows that the overall evidence favours one of the hypotheses. The 'cost' of this favoured hypothesis lies in an increase in the complexity and the irregularity of Arandic phonotactics. As such, this paper establishes that neither simplicity nor regularity in phonotactics are necessarily primary considerations in phonological analysis.

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“…The etymology of popular names linked to this legume is notably fragmented, but is able to suggest possible roots, such as the Proto-Arandic *manaatyi and its cognates in Wagaya and Waramungu (Koch, 2004) and the Proto-Ngarna *jika (McConvell & Laughren, 2004), within the Pama-Nyungan languages. The Aboriginal Australians make distinction among the morphotypes of V. lanceolata and have distinct name to denote those with extremely narrow leaflets, as seen in the Alyawarre atnwelarr and the Warlpiri kupurturru.…”

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Vigna lanceolata in the fire-stick farming and the Australian Aboriginal culture

Castelli¹,

Mikic²

2019

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An amphicarpic and tuberous legume yam Vigna lanceolata Benth., endemic to Australia, has had an extraordinary significance in the peculiar type o f farming and entire culture o f the Aboriginal peoples for tens of millennia. Our review, welding plant and human sciences, offers a concise and informative presentation of the species, by elaborating its taxonomy and morphology, describing its beneficial nutritional and medicinal properties, exploring its ecogeography, with a remarkable population abundance in the northern areas of the continent, assessing its extensive spreading as a consequence of the past fire-use environmental changes and ways o f its wilderness reconnaissance, harvest and food preparation, depicting its role in the Australian Aboriginal art, as one of the most sacred objects in the Dreamtime religion, presenting its vernacular names in 85 extinct and living Australian Aboriginal languages and concluding with opening new horizons o f its research, through recently established biodiversity and breeding programmes.

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The Arandic subgroup of Australian languages

Cited by 101 publications

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A replicable acoustic measure of lenition and the nature of variability in Gurindji stops

A replicable acoustic measure of lenition and the nature of variability in Gurindji stops

Prepalatals in Arandic

Vigna lanceolata in the fire-stick farming and the Australian Aboriginal culture

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