Description: Phonology and Phonetics in Coatzospan Mixtec Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): H. Gerfen Format: Paperback Publisher: Springer, Netherlands Imprint: Springer ISBN-13: 9789048153459, 978-9048153459 Synopsis BACKGROUND This book focuses on two major issues - vowel glottalization and nasalization - in the phonology and phonetics of Coatzospan Mixtec (henceforth CM). CM is an Otomanguean language currently spoken by roughly 2000 people (Small 1990) in the village of San Juan Coatzospan, which is located in the Sierra Mazateca of northern Oaxaca, Mexico.' Though Mixtec constitutes a major branch of the Otomanguean family, the so-called dialects are most appropriately viewed as distinct languages. According to Josserand [tel], there are at least 22 mutually unintelligible varieties of Mixtec. For its part, CM is among the most isolated. Located in the mountains, the village is surrounded entirely by Mazatec speaking communities. Only two other Mixtec languages exhibit over a 25% rate of mutual intelligibility with CM (Josserand 1982). And though it is not clear how this group of Mixtecs came to settle in what is a Mazatec speaking area, their isolation has given rise to special properties not shared by other varieties of the language. Major elements of both the phonology of vowel glottalization and nasalization under focus in this book are, to my knowledge, unique to CM among the Mixtec languages.
Price: 103.81 GBP
Location: Aldershot
End Time: 2024-08-30T12:29:46.000Z
Shipping Cost: 39.03 GBP
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return postage will be paid by: Buyer
Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
After receiving the item, your buyer should cancel the purchase within: 60 days
Return policy details:
Book Title: Phonology and Phonetics in Coatzospan Mixtec
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Width: 155 mm
Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Author: H. Gerfen
Publication Name: Phonology and Phonetics in Coatzospan Mixtec
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Springer
Subject: Engineering & Technology, Social Sciences
Publication Year: 2010
Type: Study Guide
Item Weight: 492 g
Number of Pages: 307 Pages
