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2 - A Survey of PCC Historical Phonology and Morphophonology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

H. Ekkehard Wolff
H. Ekkehard Wolff
Affiliation:
Universität Leipzig
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Summary

Chapter 2 introduces the peculiar features that can be reconstructed for the vocal domain in Proto-Central Chadic, being made up of both vowels (*/a/, *ə) and the conditioned allophones [i] and [u] of the approximants */y/ and */w/. It then presents the reconstructed segments in terms of vowels, approximants, and consonants. It discusses the problematic phonetic nature of ‘schwa’ and its varying transcriptions. Root-and-pattern structure is then introduced, followed by a description of the diachronic process of root augmentation through petrified/fused morphological markers. Lastly, types and diachronic sources of ‘prosodies’ are described as ‘floating’ dis- and reassociated coarticulation features of segments.

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vocalic domainreconstructed segmentsproblematic nature and transcription of ‘schwa’root-and-pattern structureroot augmentationtypes and sources of prosodies
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Lexical Reconstruction in Central Chadic
A Comparative Study of Vowels, Consonants and Prosodies
 , pp. 51 - 90
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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