- Title
- Pre-stopping in Arabana
- Creator
- Harvey, Mark; San, Nay; Carew, Margaret; Strangways, Sydney; Simpson, Jane; Stockigt, Clara
- Relation
- ARC.DP140100863 | DP130103935 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140100863
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Linguistics Vol. 39, Issue 4, p. 419-462
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2019.1643290
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Pre-stopping is a widespread and usually non-contrastive phenomenon in Australian languages. Contrastive pre-stopping is rare and materials on it are limited. Based partly on original phonetic data, this paper provides evidence that Arabana, a language of northern South Australia, has contrastive pre-stopping of both laterals and nasals. Current analyses of pre-stopping, both contrastive and non-contrastive, model pre-stopped sequences as complex segments, and relate their diachrony to perceptual motivations favouring the enhancement in the discrimination of place oppositions. We provide evidence that pre-stopped sequences in Arabana are best analyzed as heterosyllabic clusters, and that their diachrony centrally involves perceptual motivations favouring the augmentation of phonologically strong constituents, specifically stressed syllables.
- Subject
- Arabana; phonological augmentation; phonetics; pre-stopping; nasals; laterals; kaytetye; complex segment
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1463043
- Identifier
- uon:46623
- Identifier
- ISSN:1469-2996
- Rights
- This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Australian Journal of Linguistics on 21/08/2019, available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2019.1643290
- Language
- eng
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