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Issues in the study of Negidal vowels| old_uid | 16003 |
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| title | Issues in the study of Negidal vowels |
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| start_date | 2018/06/15 |
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| schedule | 14h-15h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle André Frossard |
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| details | Séminaire DTT |
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| summary | In this talk I will describe the system of Negidal vowels and will show which problems I am encountering trying to establish its vowel inventory. I will present the first results of my acoustic study of Negidal vowels with a focus on the area of /o - Y - Q – - a /, which show the most variation in my data. For example, the distributions of / Y/ and /o/ do not show a clear separation, reflecting extensive intra- and inter-speaker variation: the same lexeme with an / Y/ shows stronger labialization in certain instances than in the others both within and across speakers. This leads to difficulties with postulating the underlying vowels in some roots. Interestingly, a high degree of variation can also be found in the description of Cincius, who collected her data at the end of the 1920s, almost a hundred years ago. |
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| responsibles | Coupé |
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