Phonological Studies In Four Languages Of Maluku (sil International And The University Of Texas At Arlington Publications In Linguistics, Vol. 108) [Paperback]

The articles in this volume, Phonological Studies in Four Languages of Maluku, came out of a workshop held by the editors in 1990 on the campus of Pattimura University, in Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia. In these articles, the phonologies of the Sawai, Kisar, Larike, and West Tarangan languages are described. Also, maps and information about the languages' locations, various ethnic features, and suggested classifications are included in the book.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

Phonology of Sawai by Ronald Whisler

1. Phonology
2. Morphophonemics
3. The Sawai seven-vowel system
References

Kisar Phonology by John Christensen and Sylvia Christensen

1. Stress
2. System of phonemes
3. Ambivalent phonemes
4. Distribution of phonemes
5. Morphophonemics
6. Conclusion
References

Segments, Syllables, and Stress in Larike by Carol J. Laidig

1. Segments
2. Syllables
3. Stress and the phonological word
4. Stress in contractions and compounds
5. Stress shift at clause level
6. Summary
7. Interlinearized text
References

A Lexical Phonology of West Tarangan by Richard Nivens

1. Stress
2. Phonemes
3. Syllable and root structure
4. Lexical rules for affixation
5. Reduplication
6. Cliticization and other syntactic processes
7. Postsyntactic processes
8. Summary of rules
9. Summary of River dialect phonology
References