The Nasalization Processes in Bribri in the Framework of the Optimality Theory
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| Formaat: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Publicatiedatum: | 2021 |
| Omschrijving: | At the phonological level, the Bribri language does not possess nasal consonants, but it does have a series of nasal vowel phonemes that contrast with the oral vowels. Three phonological nasalization processes affect voiced consonants and unstressed vowels and produce nasal allophones: nasal harmony with regressive spreading, progressive nasalization of syllable codas and nasalization in codas as a result of hypervoicing. These three processes are analyzed in the present paper within the framework of the Optimality Theory. I suggest that two different alignment constraints are the instigators of the nasal harmony and the progressive nasalization, and that the hypervoicing, depending on the case, is a consequence of a constraint that penalizes [b] in codas or of one that penalizes geminated voiced consonants. |
| Land: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Instelling: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Taal: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:archivo.portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/46626 |
| Online toegang: | https://archivo.revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/46626 |
| Keyword: | Bribri language phonology Optimality Theory nasal harmony hypervoicing lengua bribri fonología teoría de la optimidad armonía nasal hipersonorización |