Phonological Sketch of Helong, an Austronesian Language of Timor
| dc.contributor.author | Balle, Misriani | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-24T19:06:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-03-24T19:06:16Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-06-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Helong is an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia with three dialects: Pulau, Bolok and Funai. Helong Pulau has 17 possible vowel sequences and a simple phoneme inventory of fourteen consonants and five vowels. The glottal stop /ʔ/ has a limited distribution, primarily occuring in word-final codas. Several morphophonemic changes, including metathesis, indicate that /ʔ/ is like other consonants. There is also a morphophonological process where the nominalizing prefix /h-/, a voiceless glottal fricative, causes a number of consonants to assimilate to the voiceless phonation of the preceding consonant, seen in muki ‘haveV’ → /hm/ [m̥] m̥uki ‘wealthN’, and spirantization as seen in kokon ‘sweepV’ → /hk/ [χ] χokon ‘broomN’. The /h-/ prefix has no assimilatory influence when it precedes voiced stops, as seen in ˈbutu ‘tieV’ → ˈhbutu ‘bundleN’, ˈdula ‘writeV’ → ˈhdulat ‘pictureN’. | |
| dc.format.extent | 13 pages | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1836-6821 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52399 | |
| dc.subject | Helong language | |
| dc.subject | phonology | |
| dc.subject.languagecode | heg | |
| dc.title | Phonological Sketch of Helong, an Austronesian Language of Timor | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | |
| prism.endingpage | 103 | |
| prism.number | 1 | |
| prism.publicationname | Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society | |
| prism.startingpage | 91 | |
| prism.volume | 10 |
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