TY - JOUR
T1 - The Change of rr to dd in Tyare Neo-Aramaic
AU - Mutzafi, Hezy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The change of a rhotic consonant into a voiced dental one is unique to some dialects of Tyare Neo-Aramaic amongst all other Aramaic and Semitic languages. It is a conditioned change, operating only on the Tyare retroflex rhotic phoneme /l/ and only when the latter is geminated, whereas the two other rhotic phonemes of the Tyare cluster of dialects, alveolar /r/ and emphatic alveolar /r/, are left unaffected. The diachronic background of Tyare ll > dd is discussed after a survey of problematic aspects related to its treatment in previous scholarly works.
AB - The change of a rhotic consonant into a voiced dental one is unique to some dialects of Tyare Neo-Aramaic amongst all other Aramaic and Semitic languages. It is a conditioned change, operating only on the Tyare retroflex rhotic phoneme /l/ and only when the latter is geminated, whereas the two other rhotic phonemes of the Tyare cluster of dialects, alveolar /r/ and emphatic alveolar /r/, are left unaffected. The diachronic background of Tyare ll > dd is discussed after a survey of problematic aspects related to its treatment in previous scholarly works.
KW - Retroflex rhotic phoneme
KW - Tyare Neo-Aramaic
KW - d-Tyare dialects
KW - nena
KW - r-Tyare dialects
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84953873219&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1163/18776930-00702003
DO - 10.1163/18776930-00702003
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AN - SCOPUS:84953873219
SN - 1876-6633
VL - 7
SP - 196
EP - 210
JO - Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics
JF - Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics
IS - 2
ER -