Phonology and Phonetics in Coatzospan Mixtec

H. Gerfen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

307 Seiten

1999
Springer (Verlag)
978-0-7923-6034-6 (ISBN)

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BACKGROUND This book focuses on two major issues - vowel glottalization and nasalization - in the phonology and phonetics of Coatzospan Mixtec (henceforth CM). CM is an Otomanguean language currently spoken by roughly 2000 people (Small 1990) in the village of San Juan Coatzospan, which is located in the Sierra Mazateca of northern Oaxaca, Mexico.' Though Mixtec constitutes a major branch of the Otomanguean family, the so-called dialects are most appropriately viewed as distinct languages. According to Josserand (1982), there are at least 22 mutually unintelligible varieties of Mixtec. For its part, CM is among the most isolated. Located in the mountains, the village is surrounded entirely by Mazatec speaking communities. Only two other Mixtec languages exhibit over a 25% rate of mutual intelligibility with CM (Josserand 1982). And though it is not clear how this group of Mixtecs came to settle in what is a Mazatec speaking area, their isolation has given rise to special properties not shared by other varieties of the language. Major elements of both the phonology of vowel glottalization and nasalization under focus in this book are, to my knowledge, unique to CM among the Mixtec languages.

1: Introduction.- 2: A Phonological Sketch.- 3: Glottalization.- 4: Nasalization.- 5: Conclusions.- Notes.- Appendix A: Word List For Nasal Flow Data.- Appendix B: S1 Flow Data.- Appendix C: S2 Flow Data.- Appendix D: S3 Flow Data.- References.- Names Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.1999
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory ; 48
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 307 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
ISBN-10	0-7923-6034-6 / 0792360346
ISBN-13	978-0-7923-6034-6 / 9780792360346
Zustand	Neuware