Difference between revisions of "Talk:Sereer Grammar"
m (moved Talk:Bari Grammar to Talk:Serer Grammar) |
|||
Line 118: | Line 118: | ||
This vowel chart needs a lot of editing, in terms of organizing the vowels better & making it look prettier overall. [[User:Erin|Erin]] 00:33, 7 September 2012 (UTC) |
This vowel chart needs a lot of editing, in terms of organizing the vowels better & making it look prettier overall. [[User:Erin|Erin]] 00:33, 7 September 2012 (UTC) |
||
+ | ==Tricky Sounds== |
||
+ | |||
+ | Kelsey and I have been having a really hard time trying to figure out what our spectrograms mean for stops (ejectives and implosives in particular). What are the hallmarks of an ejective stop vs. a regular stop vs. an implosive stop? We have noticed that a lot many of the things that we have been writing as implosives have creaky vowels. Is this something particularly associated with implosives? But we have examples of creaky vowels accompanying non-implosive stops. Similarly for what we have been calling "tense" stops, is the double release of ejectives what we should be associating with these sounds? What cues have you all been taking to make these decisions?--[[User:Mel|Mel]] 03:59, 21 September 2012 (UTC) |
||
==Morphology== |
==Morphology== |
Revision as of 19:59, 20 September 2012
This is the talk page for the Bari Grammar. The talk page is simply another wiki page, but one where you can speak freely about or comment on the contents of the main page without adding a bunch of "stuff" to the grammar itself.
Phonology
The phonological inventory of Bari consists of many consonants and vowels, which have many interesting properties.
A tentative consonant inventory of Bari:
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | Pharyngeal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m | n̪ | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
Stop | voiceless | p ~ pʰ ~ ɸ | t̪⁽ʰ⁾ | tʰ | k ~ kʰ, (kᵂ) | ʔ | ||
voiced | b | d | ɟ | g | ||||
implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||||
Fricative | ɸ | s, (z) | (ʕ) | |||||
Liquid | l, r | |||||||
Glide | j |
A tentative vowel inventory of Bari:
Front | Central | Back | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
High | i | ɨ | u | ||
High-mid | ɪ | ʊ | |||
Mid | e?, ɛ | ə | ɤ, o, ɔ | ||
Open | æ | a |
This vowel chart needs a lot of editing, in terms of organizing the vowels better & making it look prettier overall. Erin 00:33, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
Tricky Sounds
Kelsey and I have been having a really hard time trying to figure out what our spectrograms mean for stops (ejectives and implosives in particular). What are the hallmarks of an ejective stop vs. a regular stop vs. an implosive stop? We have noticed that a lot many of the things that we have been writing as implosives have creaky vowels. Is this something particularly associated with implosives? But we have examples of creaky vowels accompanying non-implosive stops. Similarly for what we have been calling "tense" stops, is the double release of ejectives what we should be associating with these sounds? What cues have you all been taking to make these decisions?--Mel 03:59, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Morphology
This is where morphology talk should go.