Coronal codas and phonotactics in Tupi-Guarani languages
This paper discusses the phonotactic organization of conservative Tupi-Guarani languages, and of Proto-Tupi-Guarani, by focusing on the analysis of the word-final/pre-pausal coronal approximant [j]. After illustrating how confusion prevails in currently accepted analyses of this segment, which is of...
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| description | This paper discusses the phonotactic organization of conservative Tupi-Guarani languages, and of Proto-Tupi-Guarani, by focusing on the analysis of the word-final/pre-pausal coronal approximant [j]. After illustrating how confusion prevails in currently accepted analyses of this segment, which is often considered both a consonant and a member of a diphthong, I argue that the analysis of [j] as a consonant is preferable. This claim, coupled with the auxiliary hypothesis that Proto-Tupi-Guarani phonotactics was subject to a version of the Syllable Contact Constraint, helps explain two otherwise disparate facts about Tupi-Guarani phonotactics: The impossibility of having complex -jC final codas, and the limitation of medial codas to -j. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-efd45450c0514e2685de4bfd5a0d80c12022-12-22T04:15:12ZporUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroRevista Linguística1808-835X2238-975X2022-10-0117114416110.31513/linguistica.2021.v17n1a5411824310Coronal codas and phonotactics in Tupi-Guarani languagesFernando Órphão de Carvalho0Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MN/UFRJ)This paper discusses the phonotactic organization of conservative Tupi-Guarani languages, and of Proto-Tupi-Guarani, by focusing on the analysis of the word-final/pre-pausal coronal approximant [j]. After illustrating how confusion prevails in currently accepted analyses of this segment, which is often considered both a consonant and a member of a diphthong, I argue that the analysis of [j] as a consonant is preferable. This claim, coupled with the auxiliary hypothesis that Proto-Tupi-Guarani phonotactics was subject to a version of the Syllable Contact Constraint, helps explain two otherwise disparate facts about Tupi-Guarani phonotactics: The impossibility of having complex -jC final codas, and the limitation of medial codas to -j.https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rl/article/view/54118tupi-guarani languagesphonotacticssyllable structure. |
| spellingShingle | Fernando Órphão de Carvalho Coronal codas and phonotactics in Tupi-Guarani languages Revista Linguística tupi-guarani languages phonotactics syllable structure. |
| title | Coronal codas and phonotactics in Tupi-Guarani languages |
| title_full | Coronal codas and phonotactics in Tupi-Guarani languages |
| title_fullStr | Coronal codas and phonotactics in Tupi-Guarani languages |
| title_full_unstemmed | Coronal codas and phonotactics in Tupi-Guarani languages |
| title_short | Coronal codas and phonotactics in Tupi-Guarani languages |
| title_sort | coronal codas and phonotactics in tupi guarani languages |
| topic | tupi-guarani languages phonotactics syllable structure. |
| url | https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rl/article/view/54118 |
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