Query Details

Query Subject:	the link between [+hi] vowels & dorsal consonants
Author:	Dave Eberhard
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Linguistic LingField(s):	Phonetics Phonology

Query:	This question has to do with the spreading of place features from vowels to consonants. The Mamainde language has a spreading process where the high front vowel spreads [+hi] to the coda, creating a Dorsal, or velar, or [+hi] place of articulation in the consonant. The output is not a palatal consonant but a true velar. This is hard to explain via Clement's Unified Feature Theory, or any other articulator theory for that matter since [hi] is not available as a feature for consonants (they allow Open at the Aperture node but this applies only to vowels). Has anyone done or seen any research which shows high vowels spreading the hi feature to consonants and creating dorsals (or velars)? please respond to: dave-julie.eberhard@sil.org Subject-Language: Mamainde; Code: MBG
LL Issue:	13.3174
Date posted:	03-Dec-2002
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