Glossa (Aug 2016)

Fortis/lenis, glides and vowels in Quiaviní Zapotec

  • Gabriela Pérez Báez,
  • HIROTO UCHIHARA

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.13
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1

Abstract

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Glides in San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec (Otomanguean) are underlyingly moraic and behave as other fortis consonants. Further, this Zapotec variety presents a clear case of [–consonantal] high vowels and [+consonantal] glides, exhibiting different patterns of behavior. This requires us to consider vowels and glides as separate entities in the underlying representation, rather than establishing a distinction between them based on differences in moraicity.

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