The Phonology of Yurok Glottalized Sonorants: Segmental Fission under Syllabification

Blevins, Juliette

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“…Finally, Blevins (2003) uses a preceding apostrophe for preglottalization (e.g. ['l], extending the use of this diacritic from ejectives.…”

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“…Examples of languages where preglottalization varies between full glottal stop and laryngealization include Hupa (Athabaskan), where the glottalization associated with sonorants is often realized as creakiness rather than a full glottal stop, especially in the case of preglottalized sonorants (Gordon 1996: 167), and Yurok (Blevins 2003).…”

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“…English, Thai, Mah-Meri), will be considered unitary too. Blevins (2003) gives several arguments for the unitary status of preglottalized sonorants in Yurok from phonological rules of the language that treat them, together with ejectives, as single segments (all, Blevins argues, with a glottal constriction feature). For example, if they were analyzed as clusters, then their behavior in neutralizations with plain sonorants would be unexpected: loss of glottalization would be the only case in the language of cluster simplification, and addition of glottalization would be the only case in the language of segment insertion.…”

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Proposal for superscript diacritics for prenasalization, preglottalization and preaspiration

Keating¹,

Wymark²,

Sharif³

2019

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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The IPA currently does not specify how to represent prenasalization, preglottalization or preaspiration. We first review some current transcription practices, and phonetic and phonological literature bearing on the unitary status of prenasalized, preglottalized and preaspirated segments. We then propose that the IPA adopt superscript diacritics placed before a base symbol for these three phenomena. We also suggest how the current IPA Diacritics chart can be modified to allow these diacritics to be fit within the chart.

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“…Finally, Blevins (2003) uses a preceding apostrophe for preglottalization (e.g. ['l], extending the use of this diacritic from ejectives.…”

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Proposal for superscript diacritics for prenasalization, preglottalization and preaspiration

Keating¹,

Wymark²,

Sharif³

2019

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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“…In Lai, there is substantial variation in the location of glottalization, which can only occur in coda position, but it tends to be preglottalized (Plauché et al, 1998). Likewise, glottalized nasals in Deg Xinag codas are also preglottalized (Hargus, 2016), as are glottalized sonorants in Yurok (which are devoiced if they occur word finally) (Blevins, 2003). In Hupa, there is an unusual phonemic contrast between root‐final preglottalized and postglottalized nasals, which arose because the preglottalized nasals used to be in prevocalic position, but these words underwent an apocape process that eliminated the final short vowel (Gordon, 1996; Gordon & Ladefoged, 2001).…”

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The versatility of creaky phonation: Segmental, prosodic, and sociolinguistic uses in the world's languages

Davidson

2020

WIRES Cognitive Science

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Creaky phonation (also known as creaky voice, vocal fry, laryngealization, or glottalization) is a voice quality that refers to shortened and thickened vocal folds that vibrate at a low and quasi‐regular fundamental frequency with a long period of damping. Cross‐linguistically, creaky phonation can span either short or long domains. When implemented on individual vowels or consonants (as in Zapotec or Montana Salish), it can signal phonemic contrast with other voice qualities, or it can be an additional acoustic cue to enhance other contrasts, such as tone (as in Mandarin or Cantonese). Another segmental use of creaky phonation in many languages is as a variant of glottal stop. Creaky phonation can also be implemented as a prosodic element that signals the end of a phrase (as in English or Mandarin), or indicates relinquishing a conversational turn (as in Finnish). It can also express meaning in a social interaction, such as irritation (in Vietnamese). Lastly, creaky phonation can be deployed as a sociolinguistic marker to establish identities, convey affect, or distinguish one speech group from another within the same language. In some social circumstances, such as the perception that young women use creaky phonation at greater rates than men do, it can be evaluated negatively by listeners. As creaky phonation can be combined with linguistic elements at various levels and is easily perceptible, it has taken on a remarkable number of roles in our linguistic repertoires. This article is categorized under: Linguistics > Language in Mind and Brain

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“…It is also attested in Yurok, as shown byBlevins (2003).22 We only consider versions of moraic theory which allow segments to directly associate to the syllable likeHayes (1989), excluding the versions ofHyman (1985),Zec (1988) andItô (1989), where all segments are dominated by a mora. We also set aside theories which combine moras and skeletal positions, such asVago (1989).…”

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An analysis of North Saami gradation

2012

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This paper gives a moraic analysis of gemination and laryngeal alternations associated with consonant gradation in North Saami. Gradation gives rise to a surface three-way length distinction in consonants, which is essential to understanding length in vowels and diphthongs. It is explained by a system of prosodic rules applying to underlying representations containing only a two-way contrast between geminate and singleton consonants, plus a floating mora present in certain suffixes, which results in surface alternations between extra-long and long or between long and short consonants. An enlightening explanation of quantity alternations is available if one exploits the possibility implicit in moraic theory that the relationship between segments and moras can be surface-contrastive, and we show that recourse to trimoraic syllables is unnecessary, despite the surface three-way length difference. These prosodic alternations also result in shifts in the timing of preaspiration and preglottalisation, as well as loss of these laryngeal specifications.

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The Phonology of Yurok Glottalized Sonorants: Segmental Fission under Syllabification

Cited by 40 publications

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Proposal for superscript diacritics for prenasalization, preglottalization and preaspiration

Proposal for superscript diacritics for prenasalization, preglottalization and preaspiration

The versatility of creaky phonation: Segmental, prosodic, and sociolinguistic uses in the world's languages

An analysis of North Saami gradation

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