A phonological sketch of the Ipulo language
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2015
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121 pages
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This study aims to provide the phonological background for Ipulo orthography development through the analysis of elicited words and texts. Beyond a language survey conducted in 1990 by Starr & Regnier and my own anthropological study in 2011, nothing has been written about the Ipulo language. The data for this study includes a wordlist based on the SIL Comparative African Wordlist (Snider & Roberts 2004), supplemented with texts gathered through my experience of living among the 6 Ipulo people from 2010 until 2015. Certain grammatical constructions in this paper are a contextual application of words elicited for the wordlist rather than an extraction from a particular text. Selections of the elicited words have been organized by grammatical category for the purpose of morphophonemic analysis and included as appendices to the body of this paper.
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Background.. Research description.. Acknowledgements.. Abbreviations and transcription system .. Syllable structure .. Syllable profiles.. Maximal syllable template .. Consonants .. Phonemic inventory .. Phonological processes .. Consonant distribution .. Vowels .. Phonemic inventory .. Phonological processes .. Allophonic relationships.. Vowel length and devoicing .. Vowel distribution ... Word structure .. Nouns .. Verbs .. Other grammatical categories .. Tones .. Lexical tone ..Grammatical tone .. Morphophonemic processes .. Vowel harmony .. Roundness .. Height .. Vowel hiatus resolution ...Elision .. Glide formation .. Glide epenthesis .. Metathesis .. Tone spread .. Vowel length, devoicing and tone ... Conclusion .. Bibliography .. Appendices .. Noun sampling by class and tone melody .. Noun modifiers .. Adjectives .. Demonstrative and relative pronouns .. Possessive Pronouns .. Ordinal Numerals .. Other Noun Modifiers: A sampling .. Verb sampling by syllable profile and tone melody .. Verb sampling with affixes .. Verb modifiers and functors .. Verb modifiers.. Functors
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62338