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Mazatec Languages’ Complex Consonants: Phonological Representation, Diachronic Development, and Dialectological Typology
Mazatec consonantal sequences have been a decades-long point of discussion regarding their phonological status. For example, the words [ˈʰta] ‘voice’ and [ˈtʰo] ‘gun’ in Huautla Mazatec have been analysed in several ways: as phonological consonant sequences (sequences of multiple unitary phonological consonants) (Pike & Pike, 1947; Steriade, 1994); as complex consonants (underlying unitary phonological consonants that surface as phonetic consonant sequences) (Golston & Kehrein, 1998); or as a combination of both (Chávez Peón Herrero & Filio García, 2021; García García, 2013). In this talk, we will follow Wagner Oviedo's (in press) proposal, viewing the phonological status of these consonants as complex consonants. We will consider a sub-phonemic templatic structure for these units using Q-Theory representations (Garvin et al., 2018; Inkelas & Shih, 2016; Shih & Inkelas, 2019). This proposal will be further justified by using distributional, syllabic, and morphological criteria, as well as showing the development of these complex consonants from Proto-Mazatec. Simultaneously, a typology of the different Mazatec Languages’ complex consonants’ sub-phonemic templatic structure will be proposed.
References
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