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Local and non-local consonant–vowel interaction in Interior Salish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2002

Nicola J. Bessell
Nicola J. Bessell
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin
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Abstract

Local consonant–vowel (C–V) interaction is attested in many languages, both as a phonetic and as a phonological process. There can be a clear developmental relationship between the two, with phonologisation of phonetic interaction occurring quite commonly (Hyman 1976, Ohala 1981). Thus, a common (historical) context for nasal vowels is an adjacent nasal consonant. When consonants trigger non-local effects (i.e. when the domain of the consonantal feature extends beyond adjacent segments), typically both vowels and consonants are targeted. For example, in consonant-induced nasal or emphasis harmony all segments in the harmony domain usually take the consonantal feature. If some segments are neutral, targets still include both consonants and vowels.

Type
Research Article
Information
Phonology , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , August 1998 , pp. 1 - 40
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

This paper would not exist without the generous cooperation of Nxa?amxcin speakers Agatha Bart, Elizabeth Davis and Mary Marchand and Snchitsu?umshtsn speakers Blanche LaSartre, Margaret Stensgar and Lawrence Nicodemus. I am grateful to Ivy Doak for facilitating fieldwork on Snchitsu?umshtsn. I thank Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins, Caroline Smith, Sarah Thomason, Scott Myers and three anonymous Phonology reviewers for comments that have improved the paper. Fieldwork was supported by grants from the American Philosophical Society, Phillips Fund.