{"id":2210,"date":"2017-05-26T18:34:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T18:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanlinguistics.org\/?page_id=2210"},"modified":"2017-05-26T19:34:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T19:34:25","slug":"vowels","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.americanlinguistics.org\/?page_id=2210","title":{"rendered":"Vowels"},"content":{"rendered":"

TRS has seven oral vowels [i e ə a o ɯ u] as illustrated in Figure 3 below. Conventional orthographic symbols are included in parentheses. Of the vowels listed here, the mid central vowel \/ə\/ rarely occurs and was found in only four tokens we have documented thus far, the interjection ë<\/i> [əː43<\/sup>] \u2018what?\u2019, ë’ëj yiô’<\/i> [əʔə32<\/sup>h ʒioʔ4<\/sup>] \u2018hiccough\u2019, hiëj<\/i> [jə3<\/sup>h] \u2018stone\u2019 and finally, gudurë’ <\/i>[ɡu–durə3<\/sup>ʔ] \u2018PST<\/small>–destroy\u2019 that appears in the text below. Younger Triqui-Spanish bilingual speakers in San Andrés Chicahuaxtla tend to merge \/ə\/ with \/e\/ and \/ɯ\/ with \/i\/ which may point to a future loss of both \/ə\/ and \/ɯ\/. In Santo Domingo del Estado, a town adjacent to San Andrés Chicahuaxtla, both \/ə\/ and \/ɯ\/ have already merged with \/e\/ and \/i\/, respectively. <\/p>\n

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FIGURE 3: TRS Vowels<\/p>\n

TRS has four nasal vowels: [ĩ ã ɯ̃ ũ]. [ẽ õ] are not lexically derived but may occur in morphologically-derived forms in verbs, possessed nouns, predicate adjectives and prepositions (Elliott et al. 2016; Hernández Mendoza 2013). Final vowel nasalization in these forms serves as a marker for 3sg<\/span> forms, for example, [siː32<\/sup>–nat̪õː2<\/sup>-õ3<\/sup>] POSS–<\/small>banana-CLS<\/small>–RDUP:NAS:T<\/small>3<\/sup> \u2018his\/her banana\u2019 from the unpossessed noun [nat̪oː2<\/sup>] \u2018banana\u2019 and [d̪u4<\/sup>ʔwe2<\/sup>-h-ẽ3<\/sup>] sell–CLS<\/small>–RDUP:NAS:T<\/small>3<\/sup> \u2018he\/she sells\u2019 from the root [d̪u4<\/sup>ʔwe2<\/sup>-h] \u2018sell\u2019. <\/p>\n

Each vowel represents a separate syllable in the Triqui languages. There are no diphthongs or triphthongs in TRS except for Spanish loanwords such as [ɡw<\/sup>a̯ijuː3<\/sup>] \u2018horse\u2019 from the Spanish caballo<\/i>, [sku̯e3<\/sup>laː2<\/sup>] \u2018school\u2019 from the Spanish escuela<\/i> and [radi̯uː3<\/sup>] \u2018radio\u2019 from the Spanish radio<\/i> that some speakers may pronounce with diphthongs or triphthongs as in Spanish. Final syllables may end in a modal, aspirated, or glottalized vowel (e.g., \/Vː\/, \/Vh\/, \/Vʔ\/ and \/Vʔ\/h<\/sup>V\/) and are phonemically contrastive. Final vowels are lengthened in words ending in a [Vː]-stem rime but are shorter in duration before word-final coda consonants \/ʔ\/ or \/h\/. There is a word-final constraint in TRS that vowels in word-final contexts must be lengthened. Word-final long vowels are phonetic and do not contrast with short vowels. (For additional information on vowels in TRS, see Elliott et al. 2016.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TRS has seven oral vowels [i e ə a o ɯ u] as illustrated in Figure 3 below. Conventional orthographic symbols are included in parentheses. Of the vowels listed here, the mid central vowel \/ə\/ rarely occurs and was found in only four tokens we have documented thus far, the interjection ë [əː43] \u2018what?\u2019, ë’ëj … Continue reading Vowels<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2171,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/textsOnLine.php","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2210","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlinguistics.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlinguistics.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlinguistics.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlinguistics.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlinguistics.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlinguistics.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlinguistics.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2210\/revisions\/2220"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlinguistics.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlinguistics.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}