Phonetic Variation in Consonants (Isoko)  

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Donwa-Ifode, Shirley

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 28 no. 2 (1986), page 149-160.
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One goal of linguistic phonetics is to determine why some sounds, but not others, are common in the languages of the world. In the sound system of anyone language we typically find a number of common sounds plus a number of rare sounds. Considerations of such rare sounds have often focused on their historical origins. Less often discussed has been synchronic variation between common and uncommon sounds within and across closely related dialects or languages. In this paper I will describe the occurrence of certain unusual consonant types as dialectal variants in lsoko, an Edoid language spoken in parts of the delta area of Nigeria. When a number of dialects are considered a variety of double articulation types, air stream mechanisms, and phonation types will be seen to occur in Isoko. Most of these unusual variants alternate freely with other sounds within a dialect, and show regular correspondences across dialects. Such variations are of interest for the study of Edoid in general, and Isoko in particular, of course; but it is also relevant to the more general question of the occurrence of marked segment types. While this paper will not present historical data on the development of the unusual segment types, its synchronic documentation should prove useful to others in that respect.

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