A Phonological Reanalysis of Eastern Lawa

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dc.contributor.authorMunn, Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-06T21:52:47Z
dc.date.available2017-12-06T21:52:47Z
dc.date.issued2017-12-01
dc.description.abstractPhonological descriptions of Western and Eastern Lawa, two related but mutually unintelligible languages (Nahhas, 2006), differ greatly. Western Lawa is relatively well described (c.f. Mitani, 1972, Schlatter, 1976, Ratanakul and Daoratanahongse, 1985). For Eastern Lawa, three partially conflicting phonological descriptions exist, with consonantal inventories ranging from 19 (Mitani, 1978) to 30 (Lipsius, n.d.) to 33 consonants (Blok, 2013). The vowel systems vary, from 9 (Mitani, 1978) to 24 (Blok, 2013) to 26 vowels (Lipsius, n.d.). In order to investigate the discrepancies between previous phonological descriptions, this study offers a phonological reanalysis of Eastern Lawa vowels and consonants based on recordings from nine Eastern Lawa speakers in Bo Luang and Kiu Lom, Thailand. A comparison with previous research on Eastern Lawa phonology suggests that the different results provided in earlier descriptions are partially caused by differing interpretations and partially due to undocumented phonological processes, which will be presented in this paper. Both synchronic and diachronic issues are considered.
dc.format.extent43 pages
dc.identifier.issn1836-6821
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10524/52413
dc.subjectEastern Lawa
dc.subjectphonology
dc.subjectLawa
dc.subjectWaic
dc.subject.languagecodelwl
dc.subject.languagecodelcp
dc.titleA Phonological Reanalysis of Eastern Lawa
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.dcmiText
prism.endingpage65
prism.number2
prism.publicationnameJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
prism.startingpage23
prism.volume10

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