22.572, Sum: Velarisation/Pharyngealisation of Laterals

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Date: 02-Feb-2011
From: Daniela Müller [daniela.muller at univ-tlse2.fr]
Subject: Velarisation/Pharyngealisation of Laterals
 

	
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Query for this summary posted in LINGUIST Issue: 22.85                                                                                                                                                 
 

About a month ago, I posted a query (LL 22.85) regarding instances of 
/l/-velarisation, -uvularisation, or -pharyngealisation and subsequent 
developments of those sounds outside of the Indo-European 
languages. I'd like to thank Bonny Sands, Dmitry Ganenkov, Mark 
Jones, Feda Al-Tamimi, Islam Youssef, Daniel L. Newman, and Georg 
Boehm for sharing references, thoughts, and information with me.

Bonny Sands and Dmitry Ganenkov both pointed me to Caucasian 
languages where lateral affricates and fricatives alternate or develop 
into a variety of dorsally-articulated affricates which may or may not 
have a lateral release. Starostin 2007, recommended by Dmitry 
Ganenkov, is a book-length treatment of reconstructions of laterals in 
all of the Caucasian languages.

The reverse process, namely acquisition of laterality by a variety of 
dorsally-articulated affricates (pulmonic and ejective) and clicks, has 
been observed by Bonny Sands in a 2007 study on Dahalo (Cushitic), 
?Hoan (Ju-?Hoan), and ?Xegwi (!Ui).

Feda Al-Tamimi, Islam Youssef, Daniel Newman, and Georg Boehm all 
pointed me to the emphatic (pharyngealised) lateral of Arabic which 
seems to be (marginally) phonemic in at least some dialects such as 
Jordanian or Iraqi Arabic.

Finally, Mark Jones offered some thoughts on the default pronunciation 
of /l/, specifically as far as degree of velarisation is concerned. I will 
discuss these questions in my thesis, together with their consequences 
for the representation of the lateral(s), mostly in a gestural framework.

Daniela Müller
Universitat de Tolosa 2 - Lo Miralh & Ruprecht-Karls-Universität 
Heidelberg

References:

Ferguson, Charles A. (1956), "The emphatic l in Arabic". In Language 
32:3; 446-452.

Sands, Bonny (2007), "The contribution of language documentation to 
historical phonology". In Austin, Peter K., Oliver Bond & David Nathan 
(eds.), Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and 
Linguistic Theory. London: SOAS; 209-219.

Starostin, Sergei (2007 [1994]), A North-Caucasian Etymological 
Dictionary: preface. Ann Arbor: Caravan books. (online version: 
http://starling.rinet.ru/Texts/caucpref.pdf, accessed 12/01/2011)

Trubetzkoy, Nikolaj Sergevic (1922), "Les consonnes latérales des 
langues caucasiques-septentrionales". In Bulletin de la Société de 
linguistique de Paris 23 ; 184-204. 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Phonology




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