One Case of Contrast Evolution in the Yurok Vowel System1
One Case of Contrast Evolution in the Yurok Vowel System1
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Yurok元音系统中对比演化的一个例子1
DOI:
10.1086/379681
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发表时间:
2003
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0.1
通讯作者:
Juliette Blevins
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作者:
Juliette Blevins
This paper examines a case of contrast evolution in Yurok, an Algic language. Former *e has split into two vowels, e and a, due to phonetically conditioned vowel lowering which was rendered opaque by conditioned loss of /h/. Analyzing all instances of Yurok a and a: as reflexes of *e and *e: provides new insights into verbal paradigms and morphologically related forms. This analysis also has potential implications for the reconstruction of Proto‐Ritwan. The pre‐Yurok basic four‐vowel system may directly reflect an earlier four‐vowel system in Proto‐Ritwan.