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Books: Language Documentation/Phonology: Hdouch

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        1.    Ulrich Lueders, Extraprosodicity and Syllable Structure in Berber: Hdouch
Message 1: Extraprosodicity and Syllable Structure in Berber: Hdouch
Date: 15-May-2010
From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de>
Subject: Extraprosodicity and Syllable Structure in Berber: Hdouch
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Title: Extraprosodicity and Syllable Structure in Berber Subtitle: An Optimality-theoretic Analysis Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Afroasiatic Languages 20 Published: 2010 Publisher: Lincom GmbH
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Author: Youcef Hdouch Paperback: ISBN: 9783895861383 Pages: 226 Price: Europe EURO 66.50
Abstract:

The present study investigates the concept of Extraprosodicity and itsrelevance to Tamazight syllable structure. This notion has been hinted atin studies carried out within different frameworks: Prosodic Phonology (Ito1986- 1989); Hayes (1993)); Autosegmental Phonology (Goldsmith (1990));Prosodic Morphology (McCarthy (1985-1989) and Optimality Theory (McCarthyand Prince (1993); Prince and Smolensky (1993)). However, this notion stillneeds to be explored further. The reason for this maneuver is twofold: a)to determine what Extraprosodicity is and b) to exactly explain theprinciples that condition its use. Such limitations make ofExtraprosodicity a principal research objective especially that it makesthe formulation of rules having to do with Tamazight syllable structure aneasy enterprise.

This study is thus concerned with the applicability of the notion ofextraprosodicity in analysing aspects of syllable structure of a variety ofTamazight spoken in El ksiba . Ait Wirra Tamazight Berber (HenceforthAWTB). Extraprosodicity simply means that syllable-building rules are blindto incorporating certain edge constituents into the structures they build.In the case of syllable structure, the extraprosodicity model uses thenotion of Extrasyllabicity.

Three reasons stand behind the exploration of Extraprosodicity. First, thisconcept has received little attention from Berberists. The works that havedealt with cases involving Extraprosodicity and its relevance to Tamazightsyllable structure are Bader (1985), Adnour (1994) and Faizi (2002).Second, the treatments propounded in these studies have failed to come upwith an account that is explanatorily adequate, since Extraprosodicity isconsidered a tool to account only for irregular cases where schwaepenthesis is blocked. Third, the analyses undertaken in these worksconsider Extraprosodicity a language-specific mechanism. Thus, they fail to recognize it as the result of the interaction of more general constraintspertaining to Universal Grammar.

In this book, beside relying on the assumptions of Standard Non-linearGenerative Phonology, we basically assume the conception of grammar asproposed within Optimality Theory (henceforth OT). It is within the generalframework of OT (McCarthy and Prince (op.cit.) and Prince and Smolensky(op.cit.) and later development, namely Correspondence Theory - that weattempt an analysis of some aspects of AWTB word morphophonology thatmotivate the use of Extraprosodicity. In fact, the basic principles of OTwill be applied to explain the interaction between prosodic phenomena suchas syllabification, epenthesis and affixation, a morphological process. Toexplain, some prosodic words' final syllables end in a sequence of threeconsonants, a structure not permitted word internally. Monoconsonantalcoronal nominal affixes and verbal clitics create these sequences. Thesecond chunk of the feminine morpheme /t ----- t/, the third masculine /feminine object clitics /t/ and /tt/, the second part of the 2nd personpronoun /t --- d/ and the orientation index /d/ give rise to clusters ofthree consonants when attached to nominal and verbal stems respectively.

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology                             Afro-Asiatic                             Language Documentation
Subject Language(s): Kabyle (kab) Language Family(ies): Berber
Written In: English (eng )

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