The Phonemic System of Agar Dinka
The Phonemic System of Agar Dinka
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琼脂丁卡语的音位系统
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1987
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Torben Andersen
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Torben Andersen
对丁卡语的研究有着相对悠久的历史，其中一些主要贡献是Mitterrutzner 1866、Beltrame 1880、Nebel 1936（1979年修订版）、Tucker 1939、Nebel 1948、Tucker 1981和Malou 1983。尽管如此，丁卡语的语音仍然是一个问题，特别是在元音和声调方面。50年前，人们认识到丁卡语的元音系统有一些在类型学上似乎不寻常的特征，即音质对比和超过两个程度的对比长度，但迄今为止，该系统的确切性质尚未被发现。不那么令人惊讶的是，音调系统在很大程度上被忽视了。此外，在某些方言中，在确定音节结尾位置的辅音对比方面也存在问题。缺乏适当的音位学描述反过来又是对形态学进行适当描述的障碍，因为形态学的主要部分是通过根内部元音、声调和辅音的交替来实现的。在这篇文章中，我提出了我自己的研究结果的一个丁卡方言，琼脂，这是在苏丹南部的伦拜克地区发言的语音。在概述了单词和音节结构之后，我依次讨论了辅音、元音和声调系统。
Research on the Dinka language has a relatively long history, some of the major contributions being Mitterrutzner 1866, Beltrame 1880, Nebel 1936 (revised edition 1979), Tucker 1939, Nebel 1948, Tucker 1981 and Malou 1983. In spite of this the phonology of Dinka has remained a problem, especially with regard to vowels and tones. Fifty years ago it was recognized that the vowel system of Dinka has some features that appear to be typologically unusual, viz. voice quality contrasts and more than two degrees of contrastive length, but so far the exact nature of the system has not been uncovered. Less surprisingly, the tone system has largely been ignored. For some dialects, moreover, there are also problems in defining the set of consonant contrasts in syllable-final position. The lack of an adequate phonological description has in turn been an obstacle to an adequate description of morphology, äs a major part of the latter is realized by means of root-internal vowel, tone and consonant alternations. In this article I present the results of my own research on the phonology of one Dinka dialect, Agar, which is spoken in the Rumbek area in the Southern Sudan. After an outline of word and syllable structure, I deal with the Systems of consonants, vowels and tones in that order.