CAICYT   02667
CENTRO ARGENTINO DE INFORMACION CIENTIFICA Y TECNOLOGICA
artículos
Título:
A reanalysis of Nivaĉle k͡l and ɬ: phonetic, phonological and typological evidence
Autor/es:
GUTIÉRREZ, ANALÍA
Revista:
International Journal of American Linguistics
Editorial:
University of Chicago Press
Referencias:
Lugar: Chicago; Año: 2019 vol. 85 p. 45 - 74
ISSN:
0020-7071
Resumen:
This paper describes and analyzes the typologically unique lateral system of Nivaĉle (Mataguayan). There is no lateral approximant in this language, but rather two lateral obstruents: the lateral fricative /ɬ/ and the complex segment /k͡l/. These two sounds behave differently both in terms of their phonotactic patterning and their morphophonemic alternations; they do not participate in any phonological processes that invoke their lateral articulation as a shared phonologically relevant property. The main proposal advanced here is that /k͡l/ is a complex segment and not an affricate: (i) there is no fricative release, and (ii) the sequence of two phases does not agree in voicing. Further, it is hypothesized that the development of /k͡l/ from Proto-Mataguayan *l can be rooted in speech perception factors, namely, the lateral approximant was realized with a brief stop closure which was misinterpreted as a real stop burst and reanalyzed as /k͡l/.