Abstract
Prosodic details offer valuable insight into the phonology of languages, but prosodically-grounded analysis alone does not reveal the whole picture. Benjamin Macaulay’s prosodic study into Rukai provides valuable insights into the syllable structure of the language, but phonological alternations, particularly the alternation of glides and fricatives, as well as the historical source of glides, suggests that glides still form an important part of Rukai’s phonology. Rather than doing away wtih glides, as Macaulay suggests, this study proposes a compromise position that acknowledges the utility of Macaulay’s prosodic analysis in many cases but keeps the glides [j] and [w] as part of the phonology of Rukai.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Target Article: Benjamin Macaulay; Issue Editor: Hans-Martin Gärtner
- Speaker judgments alone cannot diagnose syllable structure
- Comments
- Dismantling the universal prosodic hierarchy with possible evidence for the absence of syllables
- Elicitation tasks, language contact, and syllable structure in Budai Rukai
- ‘Direct’ elicitation and phonological argumentation
- Causes and effects of misreported syllable structures
- Intuition, intonation, inconsistency, and innateness
- The reality of Rukai Glides
- Native speakers and syllable structure
- Three worlds of variables to control in linguistics
- Reply
- Issues in systematizing the elicitation and analysis of syllable structure
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Target Article: Benjamin Macaulay; Issue Editor: Hans-Martin Gärtner
- Speaker judgments alone cannot diagnose syllable structure
- Comments
- Dismantling the universal prosodic hierarchy with possible evidence for the absence of syllables
- Elicitation tasks, language contact, and syllable structure in Budai Rukai
- ‘Direct’ elicitation and phonological argumentation
- Causes and effects of misreported syllable structures
- Intuition, intonation, inconsistency, and innateness
- The reality of Rukai Glides
- Native speakers and syllable structure
- Three worlds of variables to control in linguistics
- Reply
- Issues in systematizing the elicitation and analysis of syllable structure