Xinkan Vowel Harmony Revisited

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Anthropological Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-02-11 DOI:10.1353/anl.2018.0005

C. Rogers

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Abstract

Abstract:The Xinkan languages have been described as exhibiting a unique type of vowel harmony within the Mesoamerican linguistic area. However, these analyses have not considered the phonologically complementary distribution of vowels, leading to proposals suggesting that two separate constraints are needed: lexical stipulation within morphemes and harmonic assimilation between morphemes. However, a more unified analysis of Xinkan vowel harmony is possible–one involving only four contrastive vowels and an extrasegmental feature [–high], rather than the six vowels posited previously.

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重新审视新侃元音和谐

摘要:新坎语在中美洲语言区域中表现出一种独特的元音和谐类型。然而，这些分析并没有考虑到元音在音系上的互补分布，因此有人建议需要两个单独的约束:语素内部的词汇规定和语素之间的和谐同化。然而，对新侃元音和谐的更统一的分析是可能的——只涉及四个对比元音和一个超音特征[-high]，而不是之前假设的六个元音。

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Anthropological Linguistics Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Anthropological Linguistics, a quarterly journal founded in 1959, provides a forum for the full range of scholarly study of the languages and cultures of the peoples of the world, especially the native peoples of the Americas. Embracing the field of language and culture broadly defined, the editors welcome articles and research reports addressing cultural, historical, and philological aspects of linguistic study, including analyses of texts and discourse; studies of semantic systems and cultural classifications; onomastic studies; ethnohistorical papers that draw significantly on linguistic data; studies of linguistic prehistory and genetic classification.