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dc.contributor.advisorKrämer, Martin
dc.contributor.advisorBennett, William G.
dc.contributor.authorHarrison, Andrea
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-16T11:35:38Z
dc.date.available2024-04-16T11:35:38Z
dc.date.issued2023-11-01
dc.description.abstractLanguages spoken in the Kalahari Basin Area abound with phonetic complexity, particularly with regard to clicks and stops. In these languages, the root-initial onset position is the only position within a root that allows clicks and most egressive obstruents to occur. Some clicks and obstruents are produced phonetically as sequences of release bursts, such as a coronal stop followed by a dorsal fricative. Thus, these segments involve multiple constrictions of the vocal tract in their articulation. The phonological representation of these segments is controversial. While most older literature interpreted these onsets as unitary segments, it is now more common to interpret these sounds as consonant clusters. A cluster analysis, however, results in a highly unusual syllable typology, where typologically-unmarked Obstruent-Sonorant clusters are absent but marked Obstruent-Obstruent clusters occur. This study examines data from six Kalahari Basin Area languages – Khoekhoegowab, Khwe, !Xóõ, N|uu, Ju|’hoan, and Ekoka !Xun – to assess the phonological status of onsets with multiple release bursts. The data were collected from dictionaries and the phonetic and phonological literature pertaining to these languages. Analysis of the data leads to the conclusion that these onsets are unlikely to be clusters and are rather complex unitary phonemes. The elimination of a cluster analysis requires another phonological interpretation of the onsets to be posited. Previous formal representations of these onsets are found to lack adequate explanatory power, so this thesis proposes a new feature geometry structure to capture the phonological representation of complex onsets in Kalahari Basin Area languages. The proposed model accounts for asymmetries in the click and non-click consonant inventories and posits an expanded set of Lower Vocal Tract features so that phonological patterns can be represented more accurately in these languages.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/33407
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDLIN-3990
dc.subjectPhonologyen_US
dc.subjectKalahari Basin Area languagesen_US
dc.subjectClick soundsen_US
dc.titleThe phonological status of onsets with multiple articulations in Kalahari Basin Area languagesen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen_US


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