{"id":316,"date":"2008-11-10T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=316"},"modified":"2008-11-09T17:00:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T21:00:28","slug":"phonology-circle-1112-hrayr-khanjian-formerly-stressed-vowels-in-western-armenian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2008\/11\/10\/phonology-circle-1112-hrayr-khanjian-formerly-stressed-vowels-in-western-armenian\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 11\/12 - Hrayr Khanjian: “Formerly stressed vowels in Western Armenian”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s Phonology Circle will feature a presentation by Hrayr Khanjian.<\/p>\n

Title: Formerly stressed vowels in Western Armenian

\nTime: Wed 11\/12, 5pm, 32-D831<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

In this talk, I examine the stressed and unstressed vowels of related forms of Western Armenian. Stressed high vowels [i] and [u] either change to [ə], as seen in (1) or delete, seen in (2) and a stressed diphthong [uj] changes to [u], as seen in (3), when stress shifts off of them. The rest of the vowels and diphthongs (mostly) are unaffected. <\/P><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. \n
      \n
    • “letter” [kír] → [kər-él] “to write”<\/li>\n
    • “lie” [súd] → [səd-él] “to make false” <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
    • \n
        \n
      • “monkey” [gabíg] → [gabg-él] “to mime”\n<\/li>\n
      • “clean”[makúr] → [makr-él] “clean” <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
      • \n
          \n
        • “color” [kújn] → [kun-avór] “colorful”\n<\/li>\n
        • “culture” [məʃagújt] → [məʃagut-ajín] “cultural” <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Many languages exhibit phonological differences between stressed and unstressed vowels.
          \nThere are languages, like Catalan, Bulgarian and Russian, where all unstressed vowels reduce.
          \nIn another set of languages, like Palauan, Romanian and Armenian, only a certain set of
          \nvowels that once bore stress reduce when stress shifts. <\/P><\/p>\n

          Unlike Romanian and Palauan, Armenian has a phonological process of ə-epenthesis. I argue
          \nthat the surface schwas that seem to be corresponding to the once stressed high vowels are
          \nalso part of this epenthesis process. Without positing a new phonological mechanism to
          \naccount for the high vowel disappearance, I incorporate the derived environment effect into
          \nthe already present phonology of Western Armenian.<\/P>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          This week’s Phonology Circle will feature a presentation by Hrayr Khanjian. Title: Formerly stressed vowels in Western Armenian Time: Wed 11\/12, 5pm, 32-D831 In this talk, I examine the stressed and unstressed vowels of related forms of Western Armenian. Stressed high vowels [i] and [u] either change to [ə], as seen in (1) or delete, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}