22.3040, Qs: Pharyngealised/Velarised Laterals and Stops

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Subject: 22.3040, Qs: Pharyngealised/Velarised Laterals and Stops

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Date: 27-Jul-2011
From: Daniela Müller [daniela.muller at univ-tlse2.fr]
Subject: Pharyngealised/Velarised Laterals and Stops
 

	
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:30:03
From: Daniela Müller [daniela.muller at univ-tlse2.fr]
Subject: Pharyngealised/Velarised Laterals and Stops

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Dear colleagues,

I am preparing a thesis on lateral sounds and was wondering which 
languages contrast a pharyngealised or velarised (i.e., dark) lateral 
with a pharyngealised or velarised voiced alveolar or dental stop. I am 
aware that Arabic has such a contrast in its emphatic /l/ and /d/, but to 
my knowledge it is not fully phonemic, in that the emphatic lateral only 
occurs next to other emphatic consonants, in the word for God, and 
only a few minimal pairs exist to support the claim of emphatic /l/ and 
/d/ standing in parallel distribution.

Are there any other languages in which pharyngealised or velarised /l/ 
and /d/ contrast, either fully or marginally? Are there any languages in 
which one is clearly an allophone of the other?

Of course, I will post a summary of the answers.

Best regards,

Daniela Müller 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Phonology







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