14.3045, Qs: Uvular Consonant Effects; Loanword Adaptation

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-14-3045. Sat Nov 8 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 14.3045, Qs: Uvular Consonant Effects; Loanword Adaptation

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1)
Date:  Tue, 04 Nov 2003 07:15:18 +0000
From:  Warren Maguire <w.n.maguire at ncl.ac.uk>
Subject:  Effect of uvular consonants on adjacent vowels

2)
Date:  Fri, 07 Nov 2003 13:12:12 +0000
From:  Jennifer Smith <jlsmith at email.unc.edu>
Subject:  Loanword adaptation of syllable-final clusters

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 04 Nov 2003 07:15:18 +0000
From:  Warren Maguire <w.n.maguire at ncl.ac.uk>
Subject:  Effect of uvular consonants on adjacent vowels

Dear Linguistlist,

part of my PhD research concerns the possible effects of historical
uvular R (which may or may not have been labialised) on adjacent
vowels in Tyneside and Northumberland English.

In order to put this research in context, I am interested to know
whether uvular consonants (labialised or not) affect adjacent vowels
in other languages, and what kind of effect they might have.

Any examples (synchronic and diachronic) and references would be much
appreciated.

Thanks,

Warren Maguire
School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
http://www.students.ncl.ac.uk/w.n.maguire/


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Date:  Fri, 07 Nov 2003 13:12:12 +0000
From:  Jennifer Smith <jlsmith at email.unc.edu>
Subject:  Loanword adaptation of syllable-final clusters

I am working on a project related to phonological
modifications of loanwords.  In particular, I am interested
in things that happen to words with syllable-final clusters
when they are borrowed into languages that don't allow such
clusters.  Any suggestions of languages that might belong to
one of the following two categories would be greatly
appreciated.

(1)  Languages that have two (or more) *different strategies*
for adapting borrowed coda clusters, depending on the nature
of the consonants in the cluster (such as sonority class,
place of articulation, or status as a legitimate coda
consonant in the borrowing language).  Japanese, Korean, and
Cantonese are examples of this type of language.

(2)  Languages that adapt CVXY to CV.XvY, where X and Y are
*both obstruents* (stops, fricatives, or affricates) and
small [v] is an epenthetic vowel.  I would also be interested
in knowing whether this is the adaptation strategy used for
all borrowed coda clusters in the language, or whether there
are multiple adaptation strategies as decribed in (1) above.

Please reply directly to me (jlsmith at email.unc.edu).  I will
post a summary of any results I receive.

Many thanks,
- Jen

  Jennifer Smith                  Department of Linguistics
  jlsmith at unc.edu                 322 Dey Hall, CB #3155
  http://www.unc.edu/~jlsmith     University of North Carolina
  		                  Chapel Hill, NC  27599  USA

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