Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Consonant Harmony in Adult Speech
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| Author: | Dan Everett |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email |
| Query: |
Folks, Does anyone know of clear cases of Consonant Harmony occurring in adult speech? Some researchers have observed CH in L1 acquisition data, but others have claimed that it cannot appear in adult speech. I reported on an apparent case in: 1985 'Syllable Weight, Sloppy Phonemes, and Channels in Pirahã Discourse,' In: Mary Niepokuj et.al. (eds.) Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 11, pp 408-416. In child language acquisition cases might look like: [mom] for German /Baum/ or [guk] for /buk/ 'book', etc. In Piraha it looks like ?apapai 'head' ~ ?a?a?ai 'head' (?=glottal); Kohoi 'name' ~ Kokoi, etc. I will post a summary (if there are any responses!). Best, Dan Evere |
