Pharyngealization

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Plain text

Moroz, George (2021). “Pharyngealization”. In: Typological Atlas of the Languages of Daghestan (TALD), v 2.0.1. Ed. by George Moroz, Michael Daniel, Konstantin Filatov, Timur Maisak, Timofey Mukhin, Irina Politova, Elena Shvedova, Samira Verhees and Chiara Naccarato. Moscow: Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, HSE University. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6807070. https://lingconlab.ru/tald.

BibTeX

@incollection{moroz2021,
  title = {Pharyngealization},
  author = {George Moroz},
  year = {2021},
  editor = {George Moroz and Michael Daniel and Konstantin Filatov and Timur Maisak and Timofey Mukhin and Irina Politova and Elena Shvedova and Samira Verhees and Chiara Naccarato},
  publisher = {Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, HSE University},
  address = {Moscow},
  booktitle = {Typological Atlas of the Languages of Daghestan (TALD), v 2.0.1},
  url = {https://lingconlab.ru/tald},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6807070},
}

General chapter: Phonology

Pharyngealization is a complex feature that is realized as a constriction in the pharynx or epiglottis zone. Different scholars use different strategies for describing the locus of the pharyngealization: sometimes it is analyzed as a feature of the vowel (Forker 2013), or as a consonant feature (Khalilova 2009), or it is treated as a suprasegmental feature (Kibrik 1994; Moroz 2019). Pharyngealization commonly spreads through the word, although most researchers distinguish a core pharyngealized syllable (Kibrik 1994; Talibov 2007; Moroz 2019; Beljaev 2021). Some East Caucasian languages are known to have developed two different types of pharyngealization (e.g. Beljaev 2021), further complicating the picture. As we can see from the map, pharyngealization is common in central and southern Dagestan among languages of the Dargwa, Lak, Tsezic and Lezgic branches.

References

Beljaev, Oleg I. (2021). Dva tipa faringalizacii v širinskom darginskom: predvaritelʹnye nabljudenija [Two types of pharyngealization in Shiri Dargwa: First results]. In T. A. Majsak, N. R. Sumbatova, Ja. G. Testelec (Eds.), Durxʺasi xazna. Sbornik statej k 60-letiju R. O. Mutalova (pp. 18–29). Moscow: Buki Vedi.

Forker, D. (2013). A grammar of Hinuq. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Khalilova, Zaira. (2009). A grammar of Khwarshi (PhD thesis). Leiden University.

Kibrik, Aleksandr E. (1994). Archi. In Rieks Smeets (Ed.), Indigenious languages of the Caucasus (pp. 297–365). Delmar, NY: Caravan Press.

Moroz, George. (2019). Phonology of Mehweb. In Michael Daniel, Nina Dobrushina, Dmitry Ganenkov (Eds.), The Mehweb language. Essays on phonology, morphology and syntax (pp. 17–39). Language Science Press.

Talibov, Bukar B. (2007). Buduxskij jazyk [Budukh]. Moscow: Academia.

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