The Sound Structure of Koreguaje: segments, supra-segments and proto-segments associated with nasal harmony in the Koreguaje language (Western Tukano): segmentos, supra-segmentos y proto-segmentos asociados a la armonía nasal en la lengua koreguaje (tukano occidental)

The Koreguaje language, belonging to the subfamily of the Western Tukana languages, is spoken in southwestern Colombia by about 2.500 people. An important characteristic of its sound structure is nasality, which we treat in this work at a suprasegmental level. For the description of the process of e...

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Autor: Dupont Moreno, Carlos
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
Repositorio:Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/40360
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/ling/article/view/40360
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Protto-segmentos
Nasalidade
Koreguaje
Segmentos
Suprasegmentos
Segments
Supra-segments
Proto-segments
Nasality.
Proto-segmentos
Nasalidad
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Sumario:The Koreguaje language, belonging to the subfamily of the Western Tukana languages, is spoken in southwestern Colombia by about 2.500 people. An important characteristic of its sound structure is nasality, which we treat in this work at a suprasegmental level. For the description of the process of expansion of nasality within morphemes and morpho-phonemes, we adopt the theoretical framework of lexical phonology. These processes are carried out from underlying representations, supported by proto-phonemic studies, of the minimum significant units of the language to derive their phonetic structures. Through exemplifications, we try to demonstrate the validity of this theoretical proposal.