A PHONOLOGICAL SKETCH OF ISU
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2014
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Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation
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18 pages
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This document is based on a database of 2,246 basic words, where “basic” is defined as words with only one root that are neither ideophones nor borrowed from other languages. Since our database contains 267 imperfective verb forms (and most of these also have separate entries for the perfective) and many singular and plural forms for the same noun root, it is possible that the database may have as few as 1,500 unique roots, but it is probably more
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Abbreviations ..Acknowledgments ..INTRODUCTION .. MORPHEME TYPES .. Roots .. Affixes and Pronouns ..CONSONANTS ..Underlying consonants .. Consonant variation by position in the root ..Lengthened fricatives ..Homorganic nasal prefix remnants .. Alveo-palatal nasal [ɲ] .. Alveo-palatal consonants [ʃ], [tʃ] and [dʒ]and glottal [h] .. Unusual retroflexed allophones: [ɖ] and [ɳ] .. Semivowel Consonants: [j], [ɥ], [ɰ] and [w] ..Resulting phonetic consonant chart .. VOWELS .. Underlying vowels .. “Echo vowels” from imperfective suffixes .. “Fricative Vowels” .. Vowel diphthongs ..Resulting phonetic vowel chart .. TONE .. Surface tonal patterns .. Pitch changes in the Tense-Aspect-Mood (TAM) System .. CONCLUSION .. BIBLIOGRAPHY ..Appendix A: Contrast between Underlying Consonants ..Appendix B: Contrast between Underlying Vowels ..Appendix C: Distribution of Semivowel-Vowel vs. Vowel-Vowel.
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62336