How Did Long Terawan Berawan develop sixteen vowel phonemes?

The Long Terawan Berawan system of vowel phonemes consists of one monophthong in the antepenult, schwa, and four monophthongs in the penult, i, ə, a, and u. However, the final syllable exhibits ten monophthongs (i, ĭ, e, ĕ, a, ă, u, ŭ, o, ŏ) and six diphthongs (əi, əu, ăi, ai, ău, au). The paper des...

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Main Author: Burkhardt, Jurgen Martin
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Published: University of Hawaii Press 2016
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description The Long Terawan Berawan system of vowel phonemes consists of one monophthong in the antepenult, schwa, and four monophthongs in the penult, i, ə, a, and u. However, the final syllable exhibits ten monophthongs (i, ĭ, e, ĕ, a, ă, u, ŭ, o, ŏ) and six diphthongs (əi, əu, ăi, ai, ău, au). The paper describes how the Long Terawan vowel phoneme system emerged from a Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian system of four monophthongs (*i, *ə, *a, *u).
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spelling upm-544512018-03-19T02:50:57Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/54451/ How Did Long Terawan Berawan develop sixteen vowel phonemes? Burkhardt, Jurgen Martin The Long Terawan Berawan system of vowel phonemes consists of one monophthong in the antepenult, schwa, and four monophthongs in the penult, i, ə, a, and u. However, the final syllable exhibits ten monophthongs (i, ĭ, e, ĕ, a, ă, u, ŭ, o, ŏ) and six diphthongs (əi, əu, ăi, ai, ău, au). The paper describes how the Long Terawan vowel phoneme system emerged from a Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian system of four monophthongs (*i, *ə, *a, *u). University of Hawaii Press 2016 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/54451/1/document.pdf Burkhardt, Jurgen Martin (2016) How Did Long Terawan Berawan develop sixteen vowel phonemes? Oceanic Linguistics, 55 (2). pp. 588-619. ISSN 0029-8115; ESSN: 1527-9421 http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=dbfd74bd-a8c0-4793-b582-5fae8bb663a7%40sessionmgr4007&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=123824224 Long Terawan Berawan; Sixteen vowel phonemes; System of vowel phonemes; Vowel phonemes 10.1353/ol.2016.0026
spellingShingle Long Terawan Berawan; Sixteen vowel phonemes; System of vowel phonemes; Vowel phonemes
Burkhardt, Jurgen Martin
How Did Long Terawan Berawan develop sixteen vowel phonemes?
title How Did Long Terawan Berawan develop sixteen vowel phonemes?
title_full How Did Long Terawan Berawan develop sixteen vowel phonemes?
title_fullStr How Did Long Terawan Berawan develop sixteen vowel phonemes?
title_full_unstemmed How Did Long Terawan Berawan develop sixteen vowel phonemes?
title_short How Did Long Terawan Berawan develop sixteen vowel phonemes?
title_sort how did long terawan berawan develop sixteen vowel phonemes?
topic Long Terawan Berawan; Sixteen vowel phonemes; System of vowel phonemes; Vowel phonemes
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