Stress and vowel harmony in Telugu
Thesis: S.M. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2016.
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| author | Kolachina, Sudheer |
| author2 | Edward Flemming. |
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| description | Thesis: S.M. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2016. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1070812019-04-10T08:44:36Z Stress and vowel harmony in Telugu Kolachina, Sudheer Edward Flemming. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Linguistics and Philosophy. Thesis: S.M. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2016. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (page 48). This thesis presents a study of vowel harmony in Telugu, a Dravidian language. Vowel harmony in this language is manifest primarily in the form of vowel alternations in paradigms triggered by suffixes. I present a robust factual generalization that holds true of alternations in different types of nominal and verbal stems- vowels in unstressed syllables change to agree with a suffix vowel, with respect to either backness or height. Stress is the main conditioning environment for blocking of harmony. I show that secondary stress in Telugu can be inferred based on the pattern of vowel harmony. I account for this pattern of stressed vowels resisting harmony using positional faithfulness. Since stress-conditioned harmony is relatively uncommon in natural language, the account of vowel harmony in Telugu presented here helps to fill out the typology of stress-harmony interactions. I also report a production experiment which shows that secondary stress has a significant effect on syllable duration and is therefore, phonetically 'real' in this language. by Sudheer Kolachina. S.M. in Linguistics 2017-02-22T19:02:40Z 2017-02-22T19:02:40Z 2016 2016 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107081 971165769 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 48 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Linguistics and Philosophy. Kolachina, Sudheer Stress and vowel harmony in Telugu |
| title | Stress and vowel harmony in Telugu |
| title_full | Stress and vowel harmony in Telugu |
| title_fullStr | Stress and vowel harmony in Telugu |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stress and vowel harmony in Telugu |
| title_short | Stress and vowel harmony in Telugu |
| title_sort | stress and vowel harmony in telugu |
| topic | Linguistics and Philosophy. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107081 |
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