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Vowel alternation in disyllabic reduplicatives: an areal dimension

Author(s) -

Shinji Ido

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri journal of estonian and finno-ugric linguistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.142

H-Index - 5

eISSN - 2228-1339

pISSN - 1736-8987

DOI - 10.12697/jeful.2011.2.1.12

Subject(s) - alternation (linguistics) , tatar , linguistics , vowel , uzbek , german , turkish , kazakh , mid vowel , history , geography , philosophy , formant

This paper analyzes a variety of languages with regard to vowel alternation patterns in their disyllabic sound symbolic reduplicatives (DSRs). The analysis reveals that (1) a number of different languages have their preferred patterns of vowel alterna- tion for DSRs (e.g. //-// in ding-dong and tick-tock in English) and (2) the relative height of each vowel against the other in a DSR is a linguistic feature that is primarily areal. The languages sur- veyed in this paper include Bukharan Tajik, Chinese, English, Ger- man, Kazakh, Korean, Manchu, Mongolian, Persian, Qarakhanid Turkic, Tatar, Tatar in Xinjiang, Turkish, Tuvan, Uyghur, Uzbek, and Uzbek in Xinjiang.

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