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David Le Gac och Sabrina Bendjaballah
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Sabrina Bendjaballah och David Le Gac: On Somali Geminates

Kultur & språk

En gästföreläsning av Sabrina Bendjaballah, Université Nantes och David Le Gac, Université Rouen

Föreläsning
Datum
14 mar 2024
Tid
10:15 - 11:30
Plats
C452, Humanisten, Renströmsgatan 6

Medverkande
Sabrina Bendjaballah, Université Nantes
David Le Gac, Université Rouen
Arrangör
Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

There is a consensus on the fact that Standard Somali voiceless stops [t, k] are “never doubled to form a geminate”: they always surface as short stops (Saeed 1999:9). By contrast, Standard Somali voiced stops [b, d, g] are reputed to have geminate counterparts: [bb, dd, gg] (Saeed 1999:16). This results in an asymmetry in the way phonological length is taken to be realized in phonetics: with a length contrast for voiced stops, and with no length contrast for voiceless stops. Our aim is to provide an analysis of Standard Somali geminate voiced stops in order to decide whether such an asymmetry obtains. In addition, we extend our analysis to Djibouti Somali, with a view of providing first insights into Somali diatopic variation, which is still understudied at the present stage. Our results are thus expected to provide new information on the typology of geminates across Somali varieties.