Vowel-Rhotic Metathesis in Guarayu

Crowhurst, Megan J.; Trechter, Sara

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“…Whatever its historical origin, I propose that synchronic VC-metathesis functions as a phonological strategy to avoid violation of syllable structure constraints and to optimize the sonority cline of heterosyllabic consonant clusters. As Crowhurst and Trechter (2014:148) point out in their analysis of vowel-rhotic metathesis in Guarayu, phonological factors may contribute to the diffusion and the generalization of metathesis as the innovative pattern. Moreover, the elimination of complex codas and bad syllable contacts is structure-preserving: neither complex codas nor obstruent-sonorant sequences are ever attested as well-formed structures in the Nivaĉle language.…”

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“…A commonly cited factor that has played against a unified account of metathesis is the direction of change: certain sounds can be re-ordered in one way in one language but in the exact opposite way in another language. According to Hume (2004: 204), these are probably some of the reasons metathesis has not received much attention in the literature until recently, when both cross-linguistic surveys (Blevins and Garrett 1998, 2004; Mielke and Hume 2001; Hume 2004; Buckley 2011, among others) and analyses of individual languages (Hume 1991, 1998; Coetzee 1999; McCarthy 2000; Hume and Seo 2004; Buckley 2007; Czaplicki 2009; Hannahs 2009, 2011; Crowhurst and Trechter 2014; Faust 2014; Edwards 2018, among others) have reopened the debate about the nature and treatment of metathesis 1…”

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Vowel-consonant metathesis in Nivaĉle

Gutiérrez

2020

Can. J. Linguist.

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Vowel-consonant metathesis is observed in a variety of contexts throughout the Nivaĉle (Mataguayan) grammar. It occurs in both verbal and nominal domains, characteristically resulting from the affixation of a consonant-initial suffix to a consonant-final stem. This paper provides an optimality theoretic account for vowel-consonant metathesis and vowel epenthesis in Nivaĉle. It is demonstrated that metathesis responds to phonological requirements; specifically, it serves to avoid marked structures in the language: complex codas, derived complex onsets, and bad syllable contacts. The prosodic analysis of syllable structure constraints aims to provide broad empirical coverage, as well as a coherent and integrated theoretical interpretation.

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Vowel-consonant metathesis in Nivaĉle

Gutiérrez

2020

Can. J. Linguist.

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Taking the Laboratory into the Field

Whalen

McDonough

2015

Annu. Rev. Linguist.

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We review the development of methodologies and technologies of empirical linguistic work done outside traditional academic laboratories. The integration of such results with contemporary language documentation and linguistic theory is an increasingly important component of language analysis. Taking linguistic inquiry out of the lab and away from well-described and familiar data brings challenges in logistics, ethics, and the definition of variability within language use. In an era when rapidly developing technologies offer new potential for collecting linguistic data, the role of empirical or experimental work in theoretical discussions continues to increase. Collecting linguistic data on understudied languages raises issues about its aim vis-à-vis the academy and the language communities, and about its integration into linguistic theory.

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A new sound change for Guarani(an): glottal prothesis, internal classification, and the explanation of synchronic irregularities

Carvalho

2022

Folia Linguistica

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A so far overlooked sound change in the historical phonology of the Guaranian branch of the Tupi-Guarani language family is discussed in the present paper. The sound change in question, which accounts for certain synchronic morphological irregularities, consists of the insertion of the glottal fricative h in word-initial position any time the next (right-adjacent) syllable has a glottal stop ʔ as its onset consonant. Allomorphy resulting from this change is shown to affect verbal, nominal, and postpositional prefixes, as well as monomorphemic lexemes, thus unifying the treatment of synchronic patterns which are often addressed as an exclusive trait of certain verb forms. The paper ends by discussing the issue of internal classification, pointing a few limitations in past attempts to ground the subgrouping of Tupi-Guarani languages on phonological grounds, and highlighting the status of glottal prothesis as the first known phonological isogloss exclusively shared by the Guaranian varieties.

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Vowel-Rhotic Metathesis in Guarayu

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Vowel-consonant metathesis in Nivaĉle

Vowel-consonant metathesis in Nivaĉle

Taking the Laboratory into the Field

A new sound change for Guarani(an): glottal prothesis, internal classification, and the explanation of synchronic irregularities

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