Gradient Maori phonotactics
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of segmental distributions in the Mäori lexicon. Focussing on the strict-CV subset of the lexicon, we examine co-occurrence restrictions of consonantal onsets and vowel nuclei of adjacent syllables. For consonants, we find that sequences that share the same...
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| author | Rácz, P Hay, J Needle, J King, J Pierrehumbert, J |
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| description | This paper provides a descriptive analysis of segmental distributions in the Mäori lexicon. Focussing on the strict-CV subset of the lexicon, we examine co-occurrence restrictions of consonantal onsets and vowel nuclei of adjacent syllables. For consonants, we find that sequences that share the same place of articulation are under-represented. This shows a similarity avoidance effect in Mäori, reported for other languages (Frisch et al., 2004; McCarthy, 1986). When we correct for the presence of reduplicants in the data-set, this under-representation includes sequences of identical consonants. Sequences of identical vowels are overrepresented, even when reduplicated syllables are taken into account. The results show that gradient phonotactic processes are operating in Mäori beyond the categorical restrictions on syllable shape. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:530e6957-a662-4032-93bf-c384f6ac56d12022-03-26T16:29:22ZGradient Maori phonotacticsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:530e6957-a662-4032-93bf-c384f6ac56d1Symplectic Elements at OxfordLinguistic Society of New Zealand2016Rácz, PHay, JNeedle, JKing, JPierrehumbert, JThis paper provides a descriptive analysis of segmental distributions in the Mäori lexicon. Focussing on the strict-CV subset of the lexicon, we examine co-occurrence restrictions of consonantal onsets and vowel nuclei of adjacent syllables. For consonants, we find that sequences that share the same place of articulation are under-represented. This shows a similarity avoidance effect in Mäori, reported for other languages (Frisch et al., 2004; McCarthy, 1986). When we correct for the presence of reduplicants in the data-set, this under-representation includes sequences of identical consonants. Sequences of identical vowels are overrepresented, even when reduplicated syllables are taken into account. The results show that gradient phonotactic processes are operating in Mäori beyond the categorical restrictions on syllable shape. |
| spellingShingle | Rácz, P Hay, J Needle, J King, J Pierrehumbert, J Gradient Maori phonotactics |
| title | Gradient Maori phonotactics |
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