Tasaqi Syllable Structure and Stress
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A description of the phonology of Tasaqi syllalbe and word structure, along with stress placement.
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1. Tasaqi Allophony
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Tasaqi syllable structure is rather simple, with very few coda consonants. The syllable structure of older Tasaqi words is somewhat different to the new structure due to the influx of loan words from neighboring languages. The syllable structure can be summarized by the following:
(C)(j)V(:)(j,v,N,Q)
C stands for any consonant, V for any vowel, j and v for the approximants /j/ and /ʋ/, N for a nasal underspecified for place of articulation, and Q for a notation used in geminate consonants. Any consonant can appear word initially , including the velar nasal, albeit rarely. Any vowel can occur medially, though /e/ and /ə/ cannot appear word finally. The vowel /ə/ is rare and only appears polysyllabic words. Geminate consonants only occur word medially and are always composed of stops and nasals.
Most words in Tasaqi are polysyllabic, with very few monosyllables, unlike many East Asian analytic languages. In some dialects however, many vowels are leveled producing monosyllabic words, at the expense of the simplistic syllable structure.
Stress in Tasaqi is rather consistent and goes on the penultimate mora of the phonological word.
kaN "eat"
ka-N
káN
ii "and (verbs and clauses)"
i-i
íí
ani "person"
a-ni
áni
kurisaa "be curious"
ku-ri-sa-a
kurisáá
The stress placement includes clitics, which are numerous, and cover a wide variety of different functions. This is to the point where many common sentences consist of one phonological word, with a single stress placement.
Ni lequsa jii hii.
[niɻeɢosaʝi:ʝi:]
1First person (person)
speaker, signer, etc; I.SGSingular (number)
one countable entity=NEGNegative (polarity)
not=want=do=3Third person (person)
neither speaker nor addressee.INANInanimate (gender/class)
inanimate, sessile.SGSingular (number)
one countable entity
"I don't want to do it."
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