Bringing phonological oddities to the foreThe Basque sibilants

  1. Iván Igartua 1
  1. 1 Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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    Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

    Lejona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/000xsnr85

Journal:
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo: International journal of basque linguistics and philology

ISSN: 0582-6152

Year of publication: 2023

Issue Title: Jose Ignazio Hualderen Omenez: Ikerketak Fonologiaz eta Diakroniaz

Volume: 57

Issue: 1-2

Pages: 495-513

Type: Article

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Abstract

The contrast between apical and laminal articulations in Basque dento-alveolar sibilant consonants has traditionally attracted linguists’ attention. This distributedness distinc-tion, as it has come to be known in the literature, was assumed to be very uncommon, a sort of typological oddity (perhaps the only one) of Basque consonantism, which, in all other respects, is not particularly remarkable in terms of its phonological characteristics. Many studies have been devoted to the articulatory and acoustic properties of sibilants in Standard Basque and sev-eral dialectal varieties. In this paper, written as a contribution to this well-deserved Festschrift in honor of José Ignacio Hualde, I compare the Basque system of sibilants and its features with other structurally more or less analogous systems, drawing on recent typological research, in or-der to gain a more nuanced understanding of the alleged uniqueness of the Basque sibilants

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