Hypocoristic palatalization in Basque and historical applications
This paper examines the processes of expressive palatalization in the Basque diminutive. Basque has two forms of the diminutive, a list of inflectional suffixes and a method of palatalization with specific phonological requirements. A speaker will first palatalize any coronal sibilants in the word....
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This paper examines the processes of expressive palatalization in the Basque diminutive. Basque has two forms of the diminutive, a list of inflectional suffixes and a method of palatalization with specific phonological requirements. A speaker will first palatalize any coronal sibilants in the word. If there are none, then a dental obstruent that has a palatal counterpart is the next candidate. If there are again, none, then the last candidate is a dental coronal, but only the consonant on the leftmost edge. However, if there is a sibilant and a dental consonant, only the sibilants are palatalized. If there is a dental obstruent and a dental sonorant, only the obstruent is palatalized. To describe this process, I adopt an OT approach and an autosegmental approach to determine where the [+palatal] inflection morpheme can attach. Finally, I show the application of unworking the hypocoristic formation through internal reconstruction of Basque in animal names to produce two reconstructions.
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| spelling | doaj-art-a230b90d94f94dd3acabe96972d8869f2025-01-21T05:13:39ZengThe John Paul II Catholic University of LublinLingBaW2450-51882023-12-01910.31743/lingbaw.17026Hypocoristic palatalization in Basque and historical applicationsJackson Wolf0Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan This paper examines the processes of expressive palatalization in the Basque diminutive. Basque has two forms of the diminutive, a list of inflectional suffixes and a method of palatalization with specific phonological requirements. A speaker will first palatalize any coronal sibilants in the word. If there are none, then a dental obstruent that has a palatal counterpart is the next candidate. If there are again, none, then the last candidate is a dental coronal, but only the consonant on the leftmost edge. However, if there is a sibilant and a dental consonant, only the sibilants are palatalized. If there is a dental obstruent and a dental sonorant, only the obstruent is palatalized. To describe this process, I adopt an OT approach and an autosegmental approach to determine where the [+palatal] inflection morpheme can attach. Finally, I show the application of unworking the hypocoristic formation through internal reconstruction of Basque in animal names to produce two reconstructions. https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/LingBaW/article/view/17026diminutivephonologyhistorical linguisticsautosegmentalOT |
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| title | Hypocoristic palatalization in Basque and historical applications |
| title_full | Hypocoristic palatalization in Basque and historical applications |
| title_fullStr | Hypocoristic palatalization in Basque and historical applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hypocoristic palatalization in Basque and historical applications |
| title_short | Hypocoristic palatalization in Basque and historical applications |
| title_sort | hypocoristic palatalization in basque and historical applications |
| topic | diminutive phonology historical linguistics autosegmental OT |
| url | https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/LingBaW/article/view/17026 |
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