Affiliation:
1. Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
2. Advocate
Abstract
Abstract
The present study is a phonological analysis of the segments and tones of the Tawrã language (ISO 69-3: mhu;
Glottolog: Diga1241), a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Arunachal Pradesh, India, and in Tibet, China. This paper, the first
collaboration between a Tawrã-speaking non-linguist and a non-Tawrã-speaking linguist, attempts to clear up some confusion in
the existing literature. For example, previous studies did not note that stop codas /-p, -k/ are in free variation with glides
[-w, -j, ɰ], and that the morpheme, rather than the syllable, is the tone-bearing unit. Acoustic analyses provide justification
for the phonemic representation of the vowels and the tones. Finally, the paper is designed to introduce Tawrã speakers to the
recently standardized (2020) orthography, and to show how the letters and letter combinations function together as a system.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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