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Title: | Aspects of Kejia phonology |
Author(s): | Chung, Raung-fu |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Cheng, Chin-Chuan |
Department / Program: | Linguistics |
Discipline: | Linguistics |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Language, Linguistics
Literature, Asian |
Abstract: | This thesis is concerned with four aspects of Kejia phonology: initial consonants, diphthong representations and syllabification, the domain of tone sandhi, and the notion of geminate inalterability. The analysis is in line with the non-linear framework of generative phonology. Two issues are investigated in terms of initial consonants: palatalization and onset friction. We conclude that the nasal palatal n has two UR's: n and ng. Moreover, we argue that the fricatives v and j are derived from high vowel spreading. As for diphthong representations, we propose that there are two different representations: one for a rising diphthong and one for a falling diphthong. In addition, we propose that there are at most three skeletal slots for a Kejia syllable. These proposals account for two generalizations: no consonant can follow a falling diphthong, and a falling diphthong differs from a branching rime. As far as the domain of tone sandhi is concerned, we postulate that it is defined by the syntactic structure on the basis of domain-c-command (Kaisse 1985). The last topic is gemination and geminate inalterability. We conclude that gemination in Kejia results from spreading and that there is no inalterability effect in Kejia geminates. |
Issue Date: | 1989 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/22456 |
Rights Information: | Copyright 1989 Chung, Raung-fu |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2011-05-07 |
Identifier in Online Catalog: | AAI9010833 |
OCLC Identifier: | (UMI)AAI9010833 |
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Dissertations and Theses - Linguistics
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Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois
Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois