Database
Udi
(Azerbaijan; Northeast Caucasian, Lezgian)
Summary:
In the verb morphology, a stop or affricate metathesizes with a fricative.
Summary:
In the verb morphology, a stop or affricate metathesizes with a fricative.
Examples:
a. -des- > -st'-
b. -tSs- > -StS or -stS-
a. -des- > -st'-
tadesun
>
tast'un
'to give'
b. -tSs- > -StS or -stS-
mutSsun
>
muStSun
'to kiss'
etSsun
>
estSun
'to carry'
Conditions:
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Motivation:
Perceptual Enhancement (Hume 1997, 1998, 2000): Shifting the stop or affricate in metathesis from pre-consonantal position to postvocalic position enhances the perceptibility of the consonant given the presence of the vowel transition .
Perceptual Enhancement (Hume 1997, 1998, 2000): Shifting the stop or affricate in metathesis from pre-consonantal position to postvocalic position enhances the perceptibility of the consonant given the presence of the vowel transition .
Related Information:
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Symbols:
t' = glottalized voiceless dental stop
S = voiceless palatal fricative
Last Updated: 6/19/2007
t' = glottalized voiceless dental stop
S = voiceless palatal fricative
Last Updated: 6/19/2007
References:
- Harris, Alice C. 2000. Where in the word is the Udi clitic? Language 76, 3. 593-616.
- Schulze, Wolfgang. An online grammar of Udi. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen. (http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~wschulze/udiphon.htm
