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Cheng, Chin-Chuan Chung, Raung-fu 2011-05-07T13:40:25Z 2011-05-07T13:40:25Z 10000-01-01 1989 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. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:40:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9010833.pdf: 9025960 bytes, checksum: 955ff3f99821a6c48941ea24f433d30a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1989 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:57:44Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:27:06-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9010833 (UMI)AAI9010833 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/22456 eng Copyright 1989 Chung, Raung-fu Language, Linguistics Literature, Asian Aspects of Kejia phonology text Linguistics Linguistics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.