The Madurese Reflexes of Proto-Malayopolynesian

Stevens, Alan M.

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“…Although statistically significant, the difference in VOT values between voiceless aspirated and unaspirated plosives is on the order of 2:1 (Cohn & Lockwood 1994;Misnadin, Kirby & Remijsen 2015;Misnadin 2016) in contrast to the 3:1 or 4:1 difference often observed between these plosive series in other languages (Lisker & Abramson 1964). Orthography, historical evidence (Stevens 1966), and early descriptions (Kiliaan 1897a) all suggest that the aspirated series was previously voiced. [racʰɤ] 'steal by magic power'.…”

Section: Laryngeal Contrastmentioning

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Madurese

Misnadin¹,

Kirby²

2018

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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Madurese (bhâsa Madhurâ) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken primarily on the island of Madura and a number of regions in East Java, Indonesia. Its further subgrouping has remained a matter of some dispute. Early work placed Madurese in a Malayo-Javanic subgroup containing Javanese, Sundanese, and Malay (Dyen 1963). Glottolog and Ethnologue use the more recent ‘Malayo-Sumbawan’ classification (Adelaar 2005a), which puts Malayic, Chamic, and the Balinese-Sasak-Sumbawa group into one branch with Madurese and Sundanese in two other branches, to the exclusion of Javanese. Robert Blust, rejecting the Malayo-Sumbawan hypothesis, tentatively places Madurese in a Malayo-Chamic subgroup (Blust 2009), but also suggests (Blust 2010) that, as Madurese is lexically similar to Malay but phonologically and morphologically quite different, it may once have subgrouped with Javanese and later underwent heavy relexicalization due to language contact (see also discussion in Kluge 2017: 3).

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Section: Laryngeal Contrastmentioning

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Madurese

Misnadin¹,

Kirby²

2018

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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“…A problem with this approach is that it is not clear that the ' heavy' stops are [ATR] (they are phonetically voiceless during their occlusion). However, Stevens (1966) argues that the ' heavy' stops were voiced historically (synchronically, they lower the pitch of following vowels); so it is possible that they are phonologically [ATR].…”

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On pharynx—larynx interactions

Trigo

1991

Phonology

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The role which the pharynx plays in the production of speech sounds has long been the subject of debate, in particular as regards the independence of the pharynx from other speech articulators and in particular the larynx. Given that the linguistic and anatomical information about the larynx and the pharynx is quite complex, the objective of this paper is to review the literature relevant to the relationship between these two articulators and to recast some of this information in terms of current articulator-based theories of phonological features such as the ones reviewed in McCarthy (1988). 1 presents two pharyngeal features [ATR/ RTR] ‘advanced tongue root’ and ‘LL/RL’ ‘lowered larynx’separately in two subsections, with definitions, examples and arguments in favour of having two pharyngeal features rather than one. § 2 argues that pharyngeal features are independent of the primary point of articulation features.

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“…bitON] 'to count' but Javanese /bagus/ ∼ Madurese [p h 7k h us] 'good'). This ledStevens (1966) to posit two possibilities: either the common proto-language had two phonemes, *b (which became Javanese /w/ and Madurese /b/) and *B (which became Javanese /b/ and Madurese /p h /); or there was only *b, which became Javanese /w/ and Madurese /b/, with Madurese /p h / introduced from subsequent borrowing of items with slack-voiced Javanese /b/. However, for Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *d and *g, the evidence points towards the aspirates as the Madurese reflexes, with instances modern /d/ and /g/-already comparatively relatively rare in Madurese, according to Kiliaan-as borrowings from Arabic and/or Malay…”

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Acoustic correlates of plosive voicing in Madurese

Misnadin

Kirby

2020

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Madurese, a Malayo-Polynesian language of Indonesia, is of interest both areally and typologically: it is described as having a three-way laryngeal contrast between voiced, voiceless unaspirated, and voiceless aspirated plosives, along with a strict phonotactic restriction on consonant voicing-vowel height sequences. An acoustic analysis of Madurese consonants and vowels obtained from the recordings of 15 speakers is presented to assess whether its voiced and aspirated plosives might share acoustic properties indicative of a shared articulatory gesture. Although voiced and voiceless aspirated plosives in word-initial position pattern together in terms of several spectral balance measures, these are most likely due to the following vowel quality, rather than aspects of a shared laryngeal configuration. Conversely, the voiceless (aspirated and unaspirated) plosives share multiple acoustic properties, including F0 trajectories and overlapping voicing lag time distributions, suggesting that they share a glottal aperture target. The implications of these findings for the typology of laryngeal contrasts and the historical evolution of the Madurese consonant-vowel co-occurrence restriction are discussed.

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The Madurese Reflexes of Proto-Malayopolynesian

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Acoustic correlates of plosive voicing in Madurese

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