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Summary: Heavy Onsets References
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| Author: | LAS Null | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
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Phonology
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Original Query: Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 15:44:55 -0400 From: "LAS" <dharris@las-inc.com> Subject: Admissible Onsets in Russian and other onset-heavy languages I am interested in obtaining information regarding admissible onset types in Russian and other languages which allow for heavy onsets. Information on English is plentiful, but I haven't been able to locate information on any other languages. David Harris david@las-inc.com ************************************************************** Responses in the order in which I received them: ************************************************************** 1- Dear David, Palauan, a West-Austronesian language, is one of many languages that allows for heavy onsets . There is a dissertation on "Palauan Phonology and Morphology" by Marie Jo-Ann Flora (University of California, San Diego: 1974). The examples she gives for initial consonant clusters are the following: "tpak", "kpokp", "ptuch", "psik", "spadel", "pkul", "skores", ksid", "tmat", "kmal", "smilek", "pngak", "tngakl", "sngorech", "blay", "kles", "mlay", "llatk", "rrenged". Hope this is of help. Anja Altjohann ************************** 2- I don't have a list of onsets but I did a dissertation on a language with the widest array of 2 consonant onsets that I've encountered: Tsou, and Austronesian language of Taiwan. The dissertation also contains some discussion about the sources of consonant cluster preferences, though it doesn't contain the survey that you're looking for. The dissertation should be available (now or soon) from the UCLA dissertations in linguistics: Dept. of Linguistics, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543 The closest thing that I can think of off the top of my head is Greenberg's chapter in his 1978 Universals of Human language, vol. 2: Phonology: Some generalizations concerning initial and final consonant clusters. Though I don't agree with his conclusions Clements (1990) has a nice discussion about cluster types and has extensive references Clements (1990): The role of the sonority cycle in core syllabification. In J. Kingston and M Beckman (eds.) Papers in Laboratory Phonology I. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Richard Wright, Ph.D. Speech Research Laboratory Department of Psychology Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 rwright@psysrl.psych.indiana.edu riawrigh@indiana.edu ************************************************** 3- I don't know of a single book or reference for all (or many) Slavic languages. You could try Christina Bethin's _Polish Syllables: The Role of Prosody in Phonoogy and Morphology_, 1992, Slavica Publishers. My subjective impression is that Polish syllables allow for a wider range of heavy onsets than do Russian. Tim Beasley *************************************************** 4- I am a graduate student at the University of Maryland and my dissertation topic is about obstruent clusters in onsets. Since I am currently out of town I don't have my references with me, but when I get back I can send you a list of languages and sources (that list follows directly after Frida's address information below). In my work I developed a cross-linguistic typology of the occurrence of these clusters and provide an account based on Optimality Theory. I would be very interested in hearing more about your work. Frida Morelli Dept. of Linguistics University of Maryland, College Park Frida's information which she sent later after returning to Maryland where she has her notes: Heavy onsets meaning any kinds of clusters whether obeying sonority or not, right? Some of the obvious languages are: Italian (my native language, Nespor 1993 Fonologia. Il Mulino. Bologna) French (any grammar) Norwegian, Swedish, German and Dutch (The Germanic Languages ed. Koenig and van der Auwera. Routledge. 1994) Serbo-Croatian Gergian (Vogt 1958 Grammaire de la langue georgienne) Greek (Joseph and Philippaki-Warburton 1987 Modern Greek) Telugu, Hindi and Purki (Reddy 1987 Constraints on consonant sequences across some indian languages: a typological view. OPIL 13 39-57) In general native american languages have very complex onsets, I don't know whether you are interested in those. A good source of languages is Greenberg (1978, Universals of Human Languages) and a paper by Bell 1971 Some patterns of occurrence and formation of syllable structures in Working papers on language universals 6. Let me know if you need more information and please keep me posted on what you come up with. Frida ************************************************************ 5- In response to your query concerning onsets in Russian, you might have a look at the following dissertation: |ACCESSION: 17420959 | AUTHOR: Saunders, Ross Leslie, 1938- |TITLE: Phonological constraints in Russian syllable margins. | PLACE: [Providence] | YEAR: 1970 1971 | PUB TYPE: Book | FORMAT: iv, 172 l. tables. | NOTES: Xerox copy. | Typescript and xerox. | Vita. | Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brown University. | Bibliography: leaves 167-172. | SUBJECT: Russian language -- Syllabication. | Russian language -- Phonology. as well as Morris Halle's "Sound Pattern of Russian". Best, Philip W. Davis +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Philip W. Davis e-mail: pwd@rice.edu Department of Linguistics MS23 tel: (713)527-6010 Rice University fax: (713)527-4718 6100 Main St. Houston, TX 77005 USA +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= ******************************************************************* 6- Dear David Harris, Polish onsets: * Bethin, Christina Y. ((1992) "Polish Syllables. The Role of Prosody in Phonology and Morphology" Slavica Publishers, Inc. Columbus, Ohio. Also: several articles of Jerzy Rubach. Dutch onsets: * Trommelen, M.T.G. (1983), The Syllable in Dutch, with special reference to diminutive formation", PhD-thesis, University of Utrecht. German onsets: * Hall, T.A. (1992), "Syllable structure and syllable-related processes in German", Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tuebingen. Furthermore, Clements & Keyser (1983), Ito (1986) Best regards, Mark Verhijde Research Institute for Language and Speech University of Utrecht The Netherlands *********************************************************** -End of Responses- David Harris david@las-inc.com Language Analysis Systems Voice: (703) 834-6200 ext. 242 2214 Rock Hill Road, Suite 201 Fax: (703) 834-6230 Herndon, VA 22070 \\//\\/\/\\///\///\//\\/\/\\\//\/\\///\//\\/\/\\\//\/\\///\/\\\/\\ "The more of us who disagree, the greater the chance there is that at least one of us is right." \\//\\/\/\\\//\/\\///\/\\///\///\//\\/\/\\\//\/\\///\//\\/\/\\\//\/\ |
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| LL Issue: | 8.1095 | |
| Date Posted: | 26-Jul-1997 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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