Purepecha Aspirated Consonants and Their Phonetic Variants

<p>This study describes phonetic realizations of aspirated phonemes in Purepecha [pua] from Azajo. The distribution of aspiration in Purepecha is limited to roots, a small number of spatial suffixes, one argument structure changing suffix, and clitics. Aspiration is never contrastive for inflexional suffixes, which occur in word final position. There are three basic allophones of aspirated segments: (i) post-aspirated; (ii) unaspirated, (iii) pre-aspirated, with pre-aspiration showing 4 distinct phonetic forms, depending on dialect, and phonetic context. Strengthening of pre-aspiration has been documented in the Lake and Sierra dialects as well as vowel lengthening in the Lake dialect. In Azajo Purepecha there are no documented variants of pre-aspiration.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Master

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Linguistics

Grantor

The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York

Year dc:date.available

2018

Author dc:creator

• Camacho Cervantes, Lluvia

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Juliette Blevins

• Language Description and Documentation
• Phonetics and Phonology
• Purepecha
• Endangered Language
• Aspirated Consonants
• Preaspiration

Repository record dc:identifier

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2719

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-3765