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Re: THEORY: Feature geometry for uvulars/pharyngeals

From:Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
Date:Friday, June 27, 2003, 13:05
JS Bangs <jaspax@...> writes:

> I've been poking around for a while, and I'm really stymied trying to find > out how to fit uvulars and pharyngeals into a feature geometric system. > I've gotten a couple of fragmentary descriptions from here and there, but > nothing very conclusive or helpful.
I don't think it makes much sense to group uvulars and pharyngeals together. They aren't really that alike, phonetically. Uvulars have much more in common with velars than with pharyngeals, the difference between uvulars and velars being only gradual. Uvulars are articulated before the nasal passage, for instance, and pharyngeals behind it, so you can have uvular nasals but no pharygeal ones. It seems much more natural to me to group uvulars with palatals and velars, and pharyngeals with glottals.
> The best I can get is that there's two > possibilities: > > A privative feature [pharyngeal] under the Place node (but what about > distinguishing uvulars from pharyngeals?).
Uvulars are not [pharyngeal] in any meaningful sense. Jörg. ____________________________________________________________________________ Nur bei WEB.DE Testsieger FreeMail testen und damit 1 qm Regenwald schuetzen. Jetzt anmelden und mithelfen! http://user.web.de/Regenwald

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