On the syllables of some Uralic languages

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On the syllables of some Uralic languages

• BUW 6 Budapest
  11.01.2008.

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Aim typological description of the Uralic
languages

• using the parameters of Blevins

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• Theoretical background
• Universal Sonority Scale
• plosive lt affricate lt fricative lt nasal lt liquid
  lt glide lt vowel
• Sonority Sequencing Generalization
• Between any member of a syllable and the syllable
  peak, a sonority rise or plateau must occur.

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The Syllable

• s
• rhyme
• onset nucleus coda
• X X X X X X

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The following languages were analysed

• Samoyedic languages
• Nganasan
• Nenets
• Enets
• Selkup (Várnai Oszkó)
• Hungarian
• synchronic analysis Törkenczy
• historical analysis Oszkó

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Recently analysed language

• Komi-Permyak
• corpus Komi-Permyak Russian Dictionary
  (Kokoleva ed. 1993)
• about 5000 words
• Stem-morphemes (suffixes excluded)

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Komi-Permyak Vowel-System
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Consonant-system
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Komi-Permyak syllable-structure

• s
• rhyme
• onset nucleus coda
• (X) X X X X

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Structure of the syllable (constraints that apply
to the constituents)

• Nucleus simple nucleus
• Onset empty (only in word initial position or in
  polymorphemic words), non-complex, complex
• Coda empty, non-complex, complex

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Parameters of Komi-Permyak
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CC- in Komi-Permyak

• 208 words ( 4 )
• well-formed pl, pr, tr, kn, kl, kl, bl, br, dn,
  dr, gl, gl, gr, sm, sn, h, v, l vn, vt, m,
  zv, zn,, rj, sv,
• not-w.-f. sp (1), st (13), sk (2), t (2), k
  (1) vt (1), zd (2), zg (1), b (1)

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The Syllable in Samoyed
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The Hungarian Syllable

• s
• rhyme
• appendix onset nucleus coda appendix
• X X X X X X X
  X
• (16th century) (Modern Hugarian)

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Komi-Permyak syllable-structure

• s
• rhyme
• onset nucleus coda
• (X) X X X X

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The PU Syllable

• s
• rhyme
• onset nucleus coda
• X X X

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