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4 - Diachronic Processes in Central Chadic Language Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2022

H. Ekkehard Wolff
H. Ekkehard Wolff
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Universität Leipzig
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Chapter 4 focuses on the actual diachronic processes affecting PCC reconstructions to yield surface representations in modern Central Chadic languages. Among these, in particular, processes of vowel epenthesis, the prosodic ‘colouring’ of both phonemic */a/ and pro- and epenthetic vowels, the syllabification of weak radicals (*/y/, */w/), and the occasional intersegmental fusion of features. It discusses the diachronic phonemicisation of allophones to yield the surface vowels of modern Central Chadic languages, and explains instances of the emergence of long vowels.

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Diachronic processesvowel epenthesisprosodic ‘colouring’ of vowelssyllabification of weak radicalsintersegmental fusion of featuresphonemicisation of allophonesemergence of long vowels
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A Historical Phonology of Central Chadic
Prosodies and Lexical Reconstruction
 , pp. 133 - 157
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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