[parislinguists] Séminaire CRLAO mercredi 04 mars 2015 GONG Xun: «Gradual feature loss in the evolution of initial clusters in Eastern Tibetan»

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Vousêtes cordialement invités à une communicationdans le cadre du Séminaire du CRLAO sur les« Recherches actuelles en linguistique» présenté par GONG XunINaLCO – CRLAO   «Gradual feature loss in the evolution of initial clusters in Eastern Tibetan»  le mercredi 4 mars 2015de 16h à 18h  INaLCOSalle des Plaques2, rue de Lille75007 Paris   Abstract OldTibetan initial consonant clusters like bsgr- are simplified into /dʐ-/(or /tʂ-/) in the most reduced Central dialects of Tibetan, while peripheraldialects often preserve a more archaic situation.In this study, I will examine the phonological evolution fromOld Tibetan to the modern dialects in Eastern Tibet. The situation for thesyllable onset can be organized into a series of typological “steps ofevolution”. Most importantly, I will show that among initial clusters withnon-rising sonority, what has happened is a gradual loss of feature contrast.The reduction of Old Tibetan clusters can be partially causallyattributed to the synchronic phonological representation of Old Tibetan.In the last stage of evolution, the cluster bst- [pst-] merged with most/Ct-/ clusters into pre-aspirates /ʰt-/. I hypothesize that in the mentalgrammar of Old Tibetan speakers, bst- was represented as a pre-aspirated/ʰt-/ with additional featural specifications on a well-defined featuregeometry.This phonological representationwould be inferred by native speakers from the paradigm of attested clusters,which, in turn, has its origins in an earlier historical evolution that is“blind” in a more typical neogrammarian way.Pourinformation :Les séminaires du CRLAO sont organisés par Hilary Chappell(CRLAO-EHESS) commenceront le 14 janvier 2015 et sedérouleront les mercredis du 16h à 18h jusqu’en fin juin. Pour toute information complémentaire, veuillez contacterHilary Chappell sur hmchappell at gmail.com ou au CRLAO, 131 bd StMichel,  M. Hugues Feler au 0153 10 53 71.
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