Vowel split in Hungan (Bantu H42, Kwilu, DRC): A contact-induced language-internal change
| dc.contributor.author | Bostoen, K. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Koni Muluwa, J. | |
| dc.date | 2011 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-03-15T10:04:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-03-15T10:04:49Z | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2210 2116 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/1041 | |
| dc.description | This paper examines the diachronic origin of a vowel split in the Bantu language Hungan. It is shown that the inherited Proto-Bantu seven-vowel (7V) system was first reduced to a classical five-vowel (5V) system before the Kipuka variety of Hungan developed a new kind of 7V system. Such a 7V>5V>7V cycle has never before been described in Bantu. The new 7V system is thus the end product of a vowel merger and a vowel split which succeeded each other, but it could be mistaken for the outcome of a chain shift. The vowel split itself started out as an internally-motivated allophonic variation between tense and lax mid vowels that subsequently became phonologized through an externally-motivated loss of the conditioning environment. It can therefore be considered as a contact-induced language-internal change. | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.title | Vowel split in Hungan (Bantu H42, Kwilu, DRC): A contact-induced language-internal change | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.subject.frascati | Sociology | |
| dc.audience | Scientific | |
| dc.subject.free | Culture & Society | |
| dc.source.title | Journal of Historical Linguistics | |
| dc.source.volume | 1, 2 | |
| dc.source.page | 247 268 | |
| Orfeo.peerreviewed | Yes | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1075/jhl.1.2.04bos | |
| dc.identifier.rmca | 2468 |
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