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Title: Highly Complex Syllable Structure: A Typological Study of Its Phonological Characteristics and Diachronic Development
Language: English
Authors: Easterday, Shelece Michelle
Source: ProQuest LLC. 2017Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of New Mexico.
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Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 799
Publication Date: 2017
Document Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
Descriptors: Syllables, Speech Communication, Language Patterns, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Classification, Diachronic Linguistics, Phonology, Vowels, Incidence, Suprasegmentals, Morphemes, Role, Languages, Morphology (Languages)
Abstract: The syllable is a natural unit of organization in spoken language. Strong cross-linguistic tendencies in syllable size and shape are often explained in terms of a universal preference for the CV structure, a type which is also privileged in abstract models of the syllable. Syllable patterns such as those found in Itelmen "qsa?txt??" "follow!" and Tashlhiyt "tssk?ftstt" "you dried it (f)" are both typologically rare and theoretically marginalized, with few approaches treating these as natural or unproblematic structures. This dissertation is an investigation of the properties of languages with highly complex syllable patterns. The two aims are (i) to establish whether these languages share other linguistic features in common such that they constitute a distinct linguistic type, and (ii) to identify possible diachronic paths and natural mechanisms by which these patterns come about in the history of a language. These issues are investigated in a diversified sample of 100 languages, 24 of which have highly complex syllable patterns. Languages with highly complex syllable structure are characterized by a number of phonological and morphological features which serve to set these languages apart from languages with simpler syllable patterns: these include specific segmental and suprasegmental properties, a higher prevalence of vowel reduction processes, higher rates of morphologically complex clusters, and higher average morpheme/word ratios. The results suggest that highly complex syllable structure is a linguistic type distinct from but sharing some characteristics of other proposed holistic language types, including stress-timing, agglutination, and consonantal languages. The results also point to word stress and specific patterns of gestural organization as playing important roles in the development of these patterns out of simpler syllable structures. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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