{"title":"Vowel length in Selice Romani: Phonology, morphophonology, and diachrony","authors":"Viktor Elšík","doi":"10.3828/rost.2022.10","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Selice Romani has developed phonemic vowel length due to long-term bilingualism of the speakers in Hungarian. The present paper aims to provide a basic descriptive account of both the synchronic (phonological, phonotactic, and morphophono-logical) aspects of vowel length and its development in this Romani variety. The major source of long vowels in the pre-Hungarian compartment was pretonic substitutive lengthening through contact-induced phonemicization of pre-existing allophonic variation. The subsequent contact-induced stress fixation licensed the hypoanalysis of vowel length as a lexical property of morphemes and analogical extension of long vowels.","PeriodicalId":52533,"journal":{"name":"Romani Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"185 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Romani Studies","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3828/rost.2022.10","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ANTHROPOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Selice Romani has developed phonemic vowel length due to long-term bilingualism of the speakers in Hungarian. The present paper aims to provide a basic descriptive account of both the synchronic (phonological, phonotactic, and morphophono-logical) aspects of vowel length and its development in this Romani variety. The major source of long vowels in the pre-Hungarian compartment was pretonic substitutive lengthening through contact-induced phonemicization of pre-existing allophonic variation. The subsequent contact-induced stress fixation licensed the hypoanalysis of vowel length as a lexical property of morphemes and analogical extension of long vowels.
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Founded in 1888, the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society was published in four series up to 1982. In 2000, the journal became Romani Studies. On behalf of the Gypsy Lore Society, Romani Studies features articles on many different communities which, regardless of their origins and self-appellations in various languages, have been referred to in English as Gypsies. These communities include the descendants of migrants from the Indian subcontinent which have been considered as falling into three large subdivisions, Dom, Lom, and Rom. The field has also included communities of other origins which practice, or in the past have practiced, a specific type of service nomadism. The journal publishes articles in history, anthropology, ethnography, sociology, linguistics, art, literature, folklore and music, as well as reviews of books and audiovisual materials.
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