21.2531, Qs: Phonemic Alveo-Palatal and Palatal Fricatives

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Subject: 21.2531, Qs: Phonemic Alveo-Palatal and Palatal Fricatives

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Date: 02-Jun-2010
From: Nate Sims < nateinasia at yahoo.com >
Subject: Phonemic Alveo-Palatal and Palatal Fricatives
 

	
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From: Nate Sims [nateinasia at yahoo.com]
Subject: Phonemic Alveo-Palatal and Palatal Fricatives

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I am doing research for a Linguistics of the Tibeto Burman Area 
(LTBA) article on palatalization in the Yonghe subdialect of Qiang.
This particular dialect has both voiced and voiceless alveolo-palatal 
fricatives /?,?/ as well as corresponding palatal fricatives /ç,?/. These 
sounds are very similar sounding and have a close proximity of place of 
articulation. 

I was wondering if there are any other languages described as having 
phonemic palatal and alveolo-palatal fricatives? 

In addition, I believe that Yonghe's innovation of palatal fricatives is the 
result of older velar fricatives being influenced by high front vowels and 
am trying to find parallel instances of similar occurrences in other 
languages. 

I am living in Chengdu China and have limited access to resources on 
other languages and any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you very much,
Nate Sims 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Phonology




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