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Gasser, Emily Anne. "Windesi Wamesa Morphophonology." Thesis, Yale University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3582286.
Full textWamesa [WAD] is an endangered Austronesian language spoken in the south-eastern Bird's Head of New Guinea, in the Indonesian province of West Papua. This dissertation provides a description and formal analysis of the phonology and morphology of the Windesi dialect based on the author's fieldwork with speakers of the language.
Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the language, its speakers, and the cultural, geographic, and linguistic context in which Wamesa is spoken. It also provides background on the fieldwork which forms the basis of this dissertation and the resulting corpus. Chapter 2 describes the phonology of Wamesa, including its phoneme inventory, phonotactics, and productive phonological processes, with phonetic detail. The second half of the chapter gives an account of the phonological adaptation of loan words into Wamesa. Chapter 3 gives a formal analysis of stress assignment in the language based in Optimality Theory. Chapter 4 describes the Wamesa clitics and affixes, and Chapter 5 gives an account of the three major word classes, nouns, verbs, and adjectives, as well as modes of spatial expression and a selection of other minor word classes. Chapter 6 gives a formal synchronic analysis of the infixation of verbal subject agreement affixes in Wamesa, followed by a diachronic account of how the pattern might have arisen from incremental improvements in speech production and perception.
This dissertation provides the first in-depth description of the grammar of Windesi Wamesa, as well as the first formal analysis of its structures. The data presented here will be of interest for typological and historical studies of Austronesian, particularly the understudied South Halmahera-West New Guinea subgroup to which Wamesa belongs. In addition to enriching our understanding of this family, the dissertation presents data and analyses which will be of interest for morphological and phonological theory more narrowly.
Pucilowski, Anna. "Topics in Ho Morphophonology and Morphosyntax." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13241.
Full textStanton, Lee. "Topics in Ura Phonology and Morphophonology, with Lexicographic Application." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Linguistics, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/940.
Full textRamasamy, Mohana Dass. "Topics in the morphophonology of standard spoken Tamil (SST) : an optimality theoretic study." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1221.
Full textSigsworth, C. "On the morphophonology of Old English weak verbs : a synchronic and diachronic approach." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.661901.
Full textSherrard, Nicholas Richard. "Blending and reduplication." Thesis, University of Essex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343575.
Full textUssishkin, Adam, Natasha Warner, Ian Clayton, Daniel Brenner, Andrew Carnie, Michael Hammond, and Muriel Fisher. "Lexical representation and processing of word-initial morphological alternations: Scottish Gaelic mutation." UBIQUITY PRESS LTD, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624038.
Full textNeuman, Yishaï. "L'influence de l'écriture sur la langue." Thesis, Paris 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA030189.
Full textThe study of writing and language as semiotic codes in contact should have logically followed from the Saussurian statement: “Language and writing are two distinct systems of signs”. On the same theoretical basis as that of contact linguistics, the contact between language and writing might be conducive to mutual semiotic transfer. The acquisition of writing induces a radical cognitive change and the emergence of writing within a linguistic community modifies its organisation. The greater physical force of the visual stimulus as against aural stimulus and the high prestige gained by the mastery of writing are the cognitive and social factors that favour semiotic transfer from writing to language. With regard to lexicon, a writing tradition accompanied by an orthoepy [rules of reading aloud] provides the language with words from afar in place and in time, like learned words from classical tongues and graphic loanwords between languages whose linguistic communities are not in direct contact. Graphemic words with no linguistic provenance are also vernacularised, like the lexicalisation of abbreviations. The vernacularisation of written elements enriches language. A particularly extreme case of vernacularised written sources is that of the emergence of spoken Modern Hebrew – literary non vernacular Hebrew of early 20th century being its main source. On the phonological level, orthoepy may modify phonology, as can be shown by the emergence of consonantal clusters in French and of - et #952;- in author in English. On the semantic level, writing may be the source of the reorganisation of the signifiés based on spelling; numerous figures of speech are inspired by the attributes of writing
Campbell, Tasha M., and Tasha M. Campbell. "Plural Formation by Heritage Bilinguals of Spanish: A Phonological Analysis of a Morphological Variable." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625354.
Full textStewart, Thomas W. Jr. "Mutation as morphology: bases, stems, and shapes in Scottish Gaelic." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1086046888.
Full textDabouis, Quentin. "L'accent secondaire en anglais britannique contemporain." Thesis, Tours, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016TOUR2013/document.
Full textThis study of secondary accent in contemporary British English stands in the approach developed by Lionel Guierre and is composed of a theoretical section and an empirical section. First, we present this approach and compare it to other contemporary theories. Secondly, after a literature review, we conduct the analysis of a corpus of 5829 words carrying a secondary accent. This study confirms that the presence and position of secondary accent are largely determined by rhythmical contraints. It also reveals new elements such as the role of opaque prefixes in the placement of secondary accent in both derived an non-derived words, the role of the relative frequency of the base and its derivatives accented :021 (-)/or the existenza of a rule determining the value of the accented vowel in the initial pretonic position
Kapatsinski, Vsevolod M. "The architecture of grammar in artificial grammar learning formal biases in the acquisition of morphophonology and the nature of the learning task /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3358981.
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Ulrich, Camila Witt. "A neutralização de vogais pretônicas e a formação de palavras complexas em PB : o caso dos sufixos -inho/-zinho, -mente/ e -íssimo." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/143632.
Full textThis work aims to investigate the relation between the prosodic word and the morphosyntactic word in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) through the phenomenon of pre-tonic vowels neutralization. Taking into consideration that there is contrastivity among the seven BP vowel phonemes only in the stressed position of the word, that unstressed contexts have no opposition between mid vowels (ex. b[e]leza ~ b[]leza) and that, in the southern dialects, mid-low vowels are restricted to stressed contexts, we intend to verify, through acoustic analysis, the behavior of the pre-tonic mid vowels in cases in which neutralization seems not to occur. These cases are those formed by the suffixes -inho (ex. c//linho), -zinho (ex. p//tezinho), -mente (ex. b/ɛ/lamente) and -íssimo (ex. c/ɛ/rtíssimo). By maintaining the mid-low vowel, some authors classify them as independent prosodic words. We assume that i) -inho and -zinho can be considered allomorphs of the same morpheme (cf. Bisol, 2010); and ii) the non-occurrence of the neutralization phenomenon is already an evidence in favor of the classification of these elements as prosodic words, which suggests that, morphologically, they are also attached to the word level, not to the root level. We investigate the hypothesis that there are phonetic evidences to the treatment of these structures as prosodic compounds (cf. Schwindt, 2013a), because the syllable of the morphological base seems to resemble in terms of duration and intensity with the stressed syllable, whose vowel is in the affix. To test this hypothesis, we collected speech data from five informants of the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre. We utilized the frame Diga X pra mim and, instead of X, we inserted simple, derived and compound words with mid-low and mid-high vowels in pre-tonic position, totalizing 62 words collected by informant. In these data, we measured the acoustic properties of duration and intensity of syllables involved in the process, quoted as the main acoustic correlates of stress (Massini, 1991; Pamies Bertrán, 1997; Cantoni, 2013), and duration is the main parameter to the identification of primary stress, according to the investigated literature. The results show that, for duration, these pre-tonic syllables seem to present rates very near to the stressed syllable rates when it is affixed by -inho or -íssimo; in cases of -zinho and -mente, the duration of stressed syllable was always higher, as in the compound words, but with the stressed syllable of the base being higher to the other pre-tonic syllables. In relation to intensity, we found, in all cases, very high values to the initial syllable and to the other pre-tonic syllables, which could have been influenced by stressed position or by the type of the experiment. Crossing the data of duration with intensity, we see that the most part of investigated complex words presented higher intensity in the first syllable and higher duration in the stressed syllable. Only based in these acoustic data, we cannot make claims with respect to the classification of the analyzed suffixes, but we can suggest, based mainly in data of syllable duration, that there is a prominence identified in the initial bases of -inho e -íssimo and that -zinho and -mente behave prosodically like morphological compounds. This, if confirmed by distinct methods and future analyses, could indicate the behavior of the four investigated suffixes as independent prosodic words, which are attached, morphologically, to the word level.
Mielo, Tamires Costa e. Silva [UNESP]. "A formação de adjetivos e processos morfofonológicos no Português Arcaico : uma análise segundo a Teoria da Otimalidade." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/153255.
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O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar, por meio da Teoria da Otimalidade, os processos morfofonológicos desencadeados pela formação de adjetivos no Português Arcaico. Para tal, foi feito o levantamento de 269 adjetivos, retirados das 100 primeiras Cantigas de Santa Maria, documento representativo do período do Português Arcaico. Depois de selecionados, os adjetivos foram divididos em primitivos e derivados, de modo que os derivados totalizaram 191 vocábulos. A partir daí, foi feita, primeiramente, uma análise morfológica, verificando quais são os tipos de formação de adjetivos existentes no Português Arcaico, sendo a sufixação o mais recorrente entre eles. Em seguida, verificamos também que o sufixo -do é o mais produtivo de adjetivos nesse período da língua, seguido do sufixo -oso, também bastante produtivo. Em um segundo momento, foi feita a análise fonológica dos vocábulos que sofreram algum tipo de adaptação morfofonológica em seu processo de formação segundo a Teoria da Otimalidade. Essa análise mostrou que a restrição que proíbe formação de hiato é alta na hierarquia das restrições do Português Arcaico, fato que explica o grande número de supressão ou queda de vogais temáticas da base na formação de novos vocábulos. Ademais, tentamos encontrar uma hierarquia de restrições que desse conta do maior número de vocábulos e de adaptações sofridas por eles.
This paperwork aims to analyze, through the Optimality Theory, the morphophonological processes unleashed by the formation of adjectives in Ancient Portuguese. To do so, 269 were collected from the first 100 Cantigas de Santa Maria, important document from the Ancient Portuguese period. After collected, the adjectives were divided between primitive and derived. The derived adjectives totalized 191. After that, a morphological analysis was done, to verify what are the existing adjectives formation processes in Ancient Portuguese, being the suffixation the most common among them. We verified next that the suffix -do is the most productive of adjectives in this period, followed by suffix -oso, also very productive. Thereafter, we did the phonological analysis in the words that suffered some kind of morphophonological adaptation in its formation process, through the Optimality Theory. This analysis showed that the constraint that forbids the hiatus formation is high in the ranking of constraints in Ancient Portuguese, what explains the great number of theme vowels suppression in the base form during the formation of new words. Furthermore, we tried to find a ranking of constraints valid for the greatest number of adjectives and of adaptations suffered by them.
Hellmark, Elis. "A typological description of Celtic and Uralic consonant mutations : Towards a full typological overview of consonant mutations." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-448233.
Full textAlves, Ana Carolina Ferreira. "Morfofonologia, morfossintaxe e o sistema de tempo, aspecto e modo em Arara (Karib)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8139/tde-06112017-122200/.
Full textThis dissertation is a descriptive study on the morphophonology and morphosyntax of the Arara language, a member of the Karib linguistic family. The main goal of the study is to understand how the grammatical categories of Tense, Aspect and Mood (TAM) interact with the marking of person and number on the predicate. Some person morphemes as well as number morphemes are selected by certain TAM properties of the sentence. To account for the full understanding of the interactions, the analyses include general morphophological processes and morphosyntactic aspects to which these morphemes are subject. In addition, some semantic-pragmatic properties are described. Morphemes are subject to processes of assimilation of sonority and nasality, as well as ablaut. There are also some suppletive allomorphs and portamanteau morphemes. TAM suffixes mark tense: three degrees of past (immediate, medial, distant) and future; aspects - imperative, iterative, imperfect used only in the distant past, resumptive; and mood - imperative, hortative, vetitive (prohibitive), permissive, admonitive, interrogative, intentional and frustrative. When inflected for these tense and aspect categories, the person prefixes of the verbs interact with a person hierarchy in transitive verbs and with two classes of intransitive verbs. Transitive verbs can be inflected with two sets of different personal prefixes, A and O, while each class of intransitive verbs can be inflected by one of the personal prefixes that are similar to the ones found with the transitive verbs, either the SA or SO series of prefixes. Personal prefixes of verbs inflected for all the mentioned moods form smaller paradigms, which are composed by a restricted number of person markers. Regarding the number category, there are distinct morphemes that occur with certain TAM inflections. Specific number morphemes occur only with the third person of the distant past and the third person of the medial past. In this way, the plural is marked by different suffixes in the same paradigm. Non-verbal constructions are also addressed. In these constructions, the TAM category is expressed by particles and morphemes of nominal tense when the copula is absent or by TAM morphemes if the verbal copula itxi is in the predication. The methodology employed is to perform analyses consistent with the internal structures of the language. These analyses are based on analytical concepts from typological funcionalist and historical-comparative literature. We used data from fieldwork, which consists of texts and sentences.
Barillot, Xavier. "Morphophonologie gabaritique et information consonantique latente en Somali et dans les langues Est-couchitiques." Paris 7, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA070047.
Full textThe work is dedicated to the morphophonology of East Cushitic languages, mainly Somali and secondarily Afar, Rendille and Oromo. The analysis of "phonological" mechanisms, particularly vowel/zero alternations, requires and allows a complete calling into question of the common conception of the "morphology" of these languages. Indeed it leads to elicit original but very strict and simple principles which rule whether "underlying consonant material" may be instantiated. It appears that the proper retrieval of this underlying material allows to prove that the morphology of these languages is fundamentally and essentially "templatic". In particular the verbal system is shown to operate from a unique template, CV[CV]CVCV, identical to the template found in the Semitic and Berber languages. The elicitation of a "template" and of "latent consonants" allows to understand and unify a series of facts which before were considered as exceptions
Pawou, Molu Solange. "Problèmes de morphophonologie nominale en langue bamun (shüpamem)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCC060/document.
Full textThe following thesis investigates, built on the direct interface hypothesis (Scheer 2011, Lowenstamm 1999, Guerssel & Lowenstamm 1990) and the non-lexicalist minimalist view of the grammar (Halle & Marantz 1993), the importance of suprasegmental information (Leben 1973) in morphology. It crosses, for this purpose, the phenomenology of the left margin of nouns in Bamum (Niger-Congo, Bantu Grassfields, EasternGrassfields Bantu, Nun) (Hyman & Voorhoeve 1980), a noun class language spoken in Cameroon, and the agreement relationship between noun class affixes and the root.Nasality, a peculiar feature in the language, is used to trace the course of the derivation of Bamum nouns constructed from a postulated a-categorial root (Acquaviva 2009) and functional heads (Marantz 1997). Through the allophonic selection of segments in C1 and the allomorphic selection of the nominal prefix, we see that its mode of anchoring on the metrical tier via an iambic foot (Hayes 1985) and the way it invests the strong position (Ségéral & Scheer 2001) on the skeletal tier, determine the configuration of the bamum nominal template. Thus, the observed gender-number-diminutive syncretism in these nominal forms is more a consequence of a segmental dissimilation, at the origin of the tonal nature of the morphological plural, than the result of an operation of impoverishment (Bonet 1991) which will completely delete the information of gender. When not expressed, gender is marked by a diminutive morpheme with referential reading, which occupies the initial CV site, proven existing and never licensed in Bamum, a not so hypothetical language of exclusively Nasal-Obstruent initial clusters
Trevian, Ives. "Phonographématique, phonologie et morphophonologie des consonnes en anglais contemporain." Paris 7, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA070010.
Full textBased on a corpus of about 40,000 words, drawn from the 12th edition of d. Jones's english pronouncing dictionary (1962) and computerized by l. Guierre in 1966, this thesis presents a systematic study of the graphic-phonic correlations of english consonants, taken separately or in clusters, with the aim of setting forth effective and productive oralization rules. An exhaustive survey has thus been carried out on the various realizations of each consonantic grapheme (monographs and polyraphs) as well as on the problems of the palatalization, elision, insertion and syllabicity of consonants. Inevitably favouring a pluridisciplinary approach encompassing graphematics, phonology and morphophonology, this study has in certain cases led to the definition of hybrid rules with graphic and phonological conditioning, showing there again the importance of graphic representation in the overaill system of the english language. Finally, the data provided by our corpus and the number of words in each class have been systematically confronted with those of j. C. Wells7s longman dictionary of pronunciation (1990), the latest dictionary of english pronunication as yet published, which has generally enabled us to upgrade the productivity of the rules set out in this study
Voeltzel, Laurence. "Morphophonologie des langues scandinaves : hiérarchie segmentale et complexité syllabique." Thesis, Nantes, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016NANT2026/document.
Full textThis thesis deals with the Faroese and Icelandic consonants and the phonological processes that affect them. After a thorough examination of the phenomena active in these languages, we propose phonological representations where both the segmental content and the syllabic constraints weighing on phonological units are formalized. The analyses provided in this thesis are couched within two frameworks: the Contrastive Hierarchy framework (Dresher: 2009), crucial for the identification of the segmental material active in phonological processes, and the Government Phonology 2.0 framework (GP 2.0, Pöchtrager: 2006) needed to formalize the content and the intra/intersegmental interactions. At the same time, the GP 2.0 framework enables us to investigate the internal structure of segments as well as the use and characterization of elementary primitives. We focus in particular on the phonological representation of geminates, /obstruent+liquid/ groups, consonant fusion and cluster reduction. Although the main goal of the thesis is to investigate the consonant segments in Icelandic and Faroese, a formalization of the vocalic system of these languages is also provided. In so doing, we manage to explain the modifications that vowels cause in the structure of consonants they interact with. Concretely, we examine phenomena such as glide insertion and preaspiration, which we analyze in terms of interaction (melodic-command) between vocalic content and consonant structure. The analyses put forth in this thesis allow us to provide a uniform account of Icelandic and Faroese while acknowledging at the same time the characteristics that are peculiar to each of these languages
Uritescu, Dorin. "Formel et naturel dans l'évolution phonologique et morphophonologique (Domaines roumain et français)." Paris 3, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA030013.
Full textThe proposed process-based model of historical phonology is built on the relationship between natural factors, considered to be extralinguistic, and formal factors, definde as constant elements integrated in an organized set. Phonological evolution consists of a continaul formalization of substance and reflects both a natural and a formal teleology. Consequently, we envisage two types of universals, formal and natural, which are filtered at the levels of type, sustem and norm. This ensures a relative formal and natural continuity in the phonological evolution. From the phonological point of view, the naturalness of morphophonological processes refers only to formalized substance. For the morphological component of these processes we adopt the natural morphology model. The theoretical models are applied in the concrete analysis of some phonological and morphophonological changes in romanian and in french: the closing of unstressed vowels, the evolution of nasalized vowels, two types of diphthongization, morphonological evolution and morphological type in romanian, the deletion of 1 in quebecois in relation to the morphological type of french
Meunier, Fanny. "Morphologie et traitement du langage parlé." Paris 5, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA05H084.
Full textA major issue in the study of human language concerns the way the stored representations of words are accessed during speech processing. The research work i have carried out so far approaches this question through the special case of morphologically complex words (e. G. , 'undo', 'asymmetry'). Because of their structure, these words allow clearer insight than the monomorphemic ones into the nature of representation and retrieval processes within the 'mental lexicon'. More specifically, we raised two critical questions: (a) how is morphological structure represented mentally? And (b) how are polymorphemic words accessed during spoken language recognition? The experiments i conducted within my ph d have shown that there are both representational and processing differences between derivationally prefixed (e. G. , distrust) and suffixed forms (e. G. , trustful) the first series of experiments used a lexical decision task, performed on auditorily presented words. Our results clearly suggests that prefixed words, just like monomorphemic items, are processed in a temporally continuous way ('from left to right'), that is, without prelexical decomposition (i. E. , without words being broken down into their constituent morphemes prior to lexical access). The processing of suffixed words, on the other hand, is influenced by the rest of their 'morphological family'. All suffixed relatives of a stem are listed fully within their stem's lexical entry, and the place they occupy within this list depends on their frequency (the most frequent ones coming 'on top'). Thus, the speed with which a suffixed form is accessed will depend on its 'place' within its family. A second series of experiments used a cross-modal priming paradigm (an auditory prime was immediately followed by the presentation of a visual target, on which subjects performed a lexical decision). These experiments showed that there exists between all three member types (stem, suffixed and prefixed forms) links of a purely morphological nature (that is, other than purely semantic or formal). All these experiments give keys concerning the way morphological complex words are treated and concerning their representations format. In the last part of our work, we proposed a model that take all our results into account
Lignon, Stéphanie. "La suffixation en ̱ien : aspects sémantiques et phonologiques." Toulouse 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000TOU20089.
Full textLandi, Germain [Verfasser], Helma [Gutachter] Pasch, Reinhold [Gutachter] Greisbach, Gerrit [Gutachter] Dimmendaal, and Anne [Gutachter] Storch. "Phonologie et morphophonologie de la langue Zandé / Germain Landi ; Gutachter: Helma Pasch, Reinhold Greisbach, Gerrit Dimmendaal, Anne Storch." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1215293720/34.
Full textMaillan, Geneviève. "Le parler de Mouans-Sartoux : phonologie et morphologie." Nice, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993NICE2010.
Full textHarasowska, Marta. "Morphophonemic variability, productivity, and change : the case of Rusyn /." Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb370831678.
Full textLahrouchi, Mohamed. "Aspects morpho-phonologiques de la dérivation verbale en berbère (Parler chleuh d'Agadir) : Contribution à l'étude de l'architecture des gabarits." Paris 7, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA070058.
Full textThis thesis is dedicated to the study of some aspects of the verbal morphology of Berber within the framework of government phonology. It contributes to the study of the architecture of templates. It aims at demonstrating that the squelettal level of the phonological representations has an autonomous and independent morphological activity from the segmental level and argues in favour of the existence of templatic sites where particular morphological operations take place. The idea of the existence of this type of sites was used to analyse two main phenomena in the verbal morphology of the Berber dialect of Agadir: it serves, first of all, for explaining the way the mechanism of gemination applies to the imperfective verbs composed of two or three consonants. It is used then, to report the variation of the size of the causative and reciproque morphemes as well as in their behaviour towards the harmony of "anteriority" and the dissimilation of "labiality"
Dieye, El Hadji. "Description d'une langue Cangin du Sénégal : le laalaa (léhar)." Paris, INALCO, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011INAL0014.
Full textLaalaa, which is the object of our study, is a language of the Cangin subgroup. The Cangin languages belong to the Northern branch of the Atlantic languages of the Niger -Congo family of languages. Laalaa is essentially spoken in a very restricted zone, situated on the We'st of Tivaouane (Lehar) town and is spoken by approximately 12000 speakers, Laalaa is an endangered language; threatened particularly, by the widespread of Wolof. Almost no scientific work has been done on this language Thus ; the prime objective of this thesis is to provide a first-hand description of the language which will serve as a starting point for future studies. The present description is based on the dialect of Mbaraglou : Moussa (Bargaro) village. In the first part, we deal with the phonetic and the phonological study of the language. At the phonetic level, Laalaa counts 10 short vowels and 10 long vowels divided into two classes according to the ATR feature (Advanced Tongue Root) which mainly governs the vowel harmony. A word cannot only contain vowels belonging to the same class. As for the consonant sounds, their study shows several phonological phenomena such as lenition, syncope, assimilation and neutralization. The second part is about the nominal classification and the morphosyntactic study of different categories of words. Laalaa has 10 nominal classes to which we can add a locative class d- whose purpose is to form the adverbs of place as well as the substitutes in the names of places. Laalaa, being a highly agglutinative language, has a very complex morphological system through which it enriches its lexicon but also marks its tenses, aspects and modalities (TAM). The third part, devoted to syntactic analysis, made it possible to reveal the language's organization of various constituents (nominal constituents and verbal constituents) in sentential units and the manner in which these latter are linked together to form complex utterances
Fennan, Mina. "Phonologie et morphologie d'un parler arabe marocain de Rabat." Paris 5, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA05H072.
Full textThe topic of my thesis deals with the phonological and morphological study of an Arabic dialect spoken in the area of rabat (morocco) "phonologie et morphologie d'un parler arabe marocain de Rabat). It is a synchronic description of the dialect, which means a description of a state of the language in a fixed time according to its own structure. In my presentation of the aspects of phonology and study of the phonological relations, I included a discussion on certain complex and controversial points such as the problem of the schwa, the problem of emphasis and the problem of the semi-vowels. In the section devoted to morphology, I examined the morphological variations of the verbal and nominal monemes as well as the grammatical, phonic and discursive motivations which led to the emergence of these variations. The final part is devoted to the study of "syntematics" (derivation and composition, cf. A. Martinet). The reader will find indexes and the contents page at the end of the work
Hj, Md Mohd Saupi. "Le malais : études en diachronie et représentation formelle." Besançon, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009BESA1014.
Full textThe studies of diachronic allow us to study the changes and analyze the regularities in the change to understand the faculty of language. We are interested in the origin, orthographic, etymology, phonology, lexicology and morphology of the Malay language. It is a qualitative study using descriptive and comparative methodology for analyzing the corpus. Formalization is a field of automation and simplification of language law without disturbing the language grammatical rules for the application in the field of natural language processing. By passing the morphonology and the morphology, we are able to look clearly into the structure and the mechanism of the Malay grammar in the search for a solution for the affix-lexical combination. This study allows us to understand clearly the internal structure of allomorph, verbal and nominal derivation from Malay verbs in helping us to formulate the model of natural language processing or as an equipment of pedagogy by a schema and the rules. We are presenting the correlation between verbs and the system of derivation by using a study of linguistic-statistic by showing and explaining the situation of Malay linguistic. The result of the statistics and the corpus show us the reliability of our model because there is a coherence between result and the model
Mohamed-Soyir, Kassim. "Le nom en shingazidʒa (G44a) : morphologie, phonologie, sémantique et syntaxe." Paris 7, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA070092.
Full textThe present dissertation aims to explore the nature of nouns in shingazidʒaa, a G40 Bantu language spoken on Ngazidʒa a island (Grande Comore) by about 500. 000 people, to whom a sizeable amount of expatriates living mainly in France should be added. All the issues generally associated with nouns in morphology, phonology, semantics and syntax are considered. Pitch-accent, a remnant of a tone system that probably existed at an earlier stage of the language, and determination are studied as well. Emphasis, however, is on morphophonological phenomena, whose analysis crucially depends on the other aspects of the noun system. The study is conducted in the framework of Lexemic Combinatory Morphology (LCM) that takes the lexeme as the minimal lexical unit, stripped from the inflectional markings only present on word-forms. It puts forward two theories that help to shed light on issues that have been little dealt with in Bantu studies and have to do with the morphophonological interface: Lowenstamm's 'Begining of the word' theory and Anscombre's theory of stereotypes. The former allows us to show that the phonetic zero one would be tempted to posit in noun class 5 owing to the absence of a class marker (CM) is far from representing a phonological, let alone morphological void. Anscombre's theory, on the other hand, enables us to analyse the semantico-syntactic subtle complexities brought about by agentivization, as well as the morphophonological phenomena underlying or accompanying these complexities. Thanks to these two theories and a few others such as grammaticalization theory, three main points are thus considered: (i) the morphophonological manifestations of the zero class marker (ZCM) corresponding to the Bantu noun class 5; (ii) number in a morphophonological perspective; (iii) derivation, nominalizations in particular
Fathi, Radwa. "La longueur vocalique en arabe égyptien : une nouvelle conception." Paris 7, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA070045.
Full textThe dissertation is devoted to the study of the vowel system of an Arabic variety spoken in the major urban centers in northern Egypt, k*own under the generic terra "Egyptian Arabic. " The first common thread that runs through all chapters of the dissertation is to establish descriptive generalizations on issues that have not yet received the proper attention, descriptions that constitute true linguistic generalizations of a type likely to feed theoretical elaboration. A detailed analysis of a comprehensive fragment of fresh data using analytical tools different from those previously used by my predecessors is offered. The main argument of the dissertation is that the key to the interpretation of the most prominent vowel-related events in this language lies in the interdependence of vowel quality and vowel quantity. Only phonologically long vowels can maintain their quality on the phonetic level, otherwise they become incapable of surfacing. The establishment of the new construal of vowel length in Egyptian Arabic was also made possible through comparison with other varieties of Arabic whose diachrony and parameters are relatively well understood, namely Classical Arabic and the Arabic spoken in the Maghreb. With the proliferation of valuable research on contemporary varieties of spoken Arabic, the prospect of defming the parameters responsible for the identification and stabilization of each language or dialect appears to be within reach. This is the other common thread running through the dissertation. The dissertation in this respect contributes to the enhancement of the study of Arabic dialectology
Girard, Isabelle. "Isomorphisme en anglais contemporain : étude de quelques suffixes." Tours, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007TOUR2024.
Full textThe purpose of our study is to continue developing Guierre's conclusions on the roles of derivational isomorphism and analogy within the overall stress-pattern system of contemporary English. This study consists in a set of morpho-phonological analyses based on a selection of adjectival (-al, -(at)ory, -(at)ive) and nominal (-age, -al, -ist) suffixes which are phonologically complex. It aims at exploring and explaining the conflicting relationships between derivational isomorphism and two main types of analogy ("isomorphisme intra-paradigmatique" and "isomorphisme inter-paradigmatique"), paying particular attention to the productivity of the suffixes studied and to the divergent treatment of the irregularity of some isomorphic stress-patterns. Our analysis reveals the existence of a complex network of inter-paradigmatic relationships between transparent and non transparent suffixed words which seems to be ruled by the supremacy of micro-systemic analogy over macro-systemic analogy
Solomiac, Paul. "Phonologie et morphosyntaxe du Dzùùngoo de Samogohiri." Lyon 2, 2007. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2007/solomiac_p.
Full textSpoken by less than 20,000 speakers living by the Malian border of Burkina Faso, Dzùùngoo (also called Samogho) is a North West Mande language of the Niger Congo family. This language has not yet been the object of a detailed linguistic description. Thus, based on extensive lexical, textual and audio data recorded in Samogohiri over a period of 20 years, we propose to provide the scientific community a descriptive foundation for the future development of a bilingual Dzùùngoo – French dictionary that should acknowledge the world cultural heritage that this endangered language represents. The initial issues for this work are therefore lexical. The internal structure of the lexeme is outlined in the phonological description where the inventory of phonemes (Chapter 3), the syllabic structure of the word (Chapters 2, 4 & 5) and its tonal structure (Chapter 6) are developed. The morphosyntactic description as such mainly focuses on defining and establishing the different grammatical categories to which every lexical item belongs (Chapter 9). The syntactic organization of the sentence is then considered in the presentation of the different nominal (Chapter 10) and verbal (Chapter 11) operations, as well as different predication structures, non verbal (Chapter 12) and verbal (Chapter 13), marked structures (Chapter 14) and complex structures (Chapter 15). Using a typological and functional approach, this description is an attempt to put Dzùùngoo morphosyntax in the global perspective of mande linguistics
Faust, Noam. "Forme et fonction dans la morphologie nominale de l'hébreu moderne : études en morpho-syntaxe." Paris 7, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA070104.
Full textThis dissertation treats nominal patterns in Modem Hebrew (henceforth MH). In it, I explore the two following claims: 1)Words are built in Syntax. 2)The form of a word is indicative of its syntactic structure. It follows from the conjunction of the two claims that the form of a word is less arbitrary than it might seem, because it an be motivated by the syntactic structure of the word. Inversely, the (morpho-)syntactic structure of word can be detected through the examination of the form of that word. In the dissertation, I show several cases in which this approach to morphology is invalidated through its capacity to motivate the distribution of signifiants in the language. My main conclusion is that the form of a word, however arbitrary, is often not accidental: it can be motivated synchronically. The first part of the dissertation deals with exclusively phonological processes. I examine vocalic alternation between two different vowels or between a vowel and Ø (=syncope or epenthesis). The following three analytic chapters deal with different aspects of MH morpho-syntax. In chapter 4 I study unaffixed nouns and draw conclusions for Phase Theory chapter 5 examines the various suffixes of MH and the processes related to them. Finally, in the last chapter I turn to nouns that are related to verbs: participles, m-nouns, infinitives and agentives. In these chapters, homophony and allomorphy are shown to be non-arbitrary. These three chapters ail point to a non-trivial dependency between form (phonology) and function (syntactic structure). The dissertation thus lends support to (1&2) above
Pagliano, Claudine. "L'épenthèse consonantique en français : ce que la syntaxe, la sémantique et la morphologie peuvent faire à la phonologie : parles-en de ta numérotation ?impossible : thèse." Nice, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003NICE2020.
Full textThis study inquires on consonantal epenthesis in French. It shows that semantics, syntax and morphology play a direct role in the creation of a strong position in that they send a [CV] unit to the phonological module. Emphasis witnesses the intervention of semantics: the insertion of a [CV] causes the epenthesis of a [?] in a strong position that is lexically empty (c'est ?impossible), the gemination of the consonant occupying the strong position (c'est imppossible), or the linking of the floating [?] in h aspiré words (grosse ?housse). Syntax provides a [CV] when post-clitics are produced (parle-t-il; parle-z-en); the consonant that appears before the post-clitic is an agreement marker: post-verbal liaison in French is a pure "orthographic fiction". The elaboration of a corpus of derived terms with an epenthetic consonant between stem and suffix (numéroter) evidences the intervention of morphology for some suffixes. No consonantal epenthesis in French is caused by a hiatus
Ntwari, Gérard. "Le rôle des morphotonèmes dans l'identification des modes en Kinyarwanda." Thesis, Université Laval, 2007. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2007/24439/24439.pdf.
Full textKanoun, Slim. "Identification et analyse de textes arabes par approche affixale." Rouen, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002ROUES040.
Full textThe presented work in this memory tackles the problems involved in differentiation and text recognition in off-line mode in Arabic and Latin multilingual documents. The first part of this work relates to a method of differentiation between Arabic texts and Latin texts in two natures printed and handwritten. The second part proposes a new approach, called affixal approach, for Arabic word recognition and text analysis. This approach is characterized by modelling from morph-syntactic entities (word basic morphemes) by integrating the morpho-phonological aspects of Arabic vocabulary in the recognition process compared to the traditional approaches which proceed by the modelling of grahic entities (word, letter, pseudo word). The tests carried out show well the contribution of the approach on the recognition simplification and the morph-syntactic categorization of the words in an Arabic text
Delumeau, Fabrice. "UNE DESCRIPTION LINGUISTIQUE DU CREOLE GUADELOUPEEN DANS LA PERSPECTIVE DE LA GENERATION AUTOMATIQUE D'ENONCES." Phd thesis, Université de Nanterre - Paris X, 2006. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00169457.
Full textGuerrero, Aurélie. "Analyse thématique de la flexion en catalan central standard." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOU20010/document.
Full textThe purpose of this Ph.D. is to study verbal, nominal and adjectival inflection in standard central Catalan. It entails an inferential and realizational approach to morphology (cf. Stump 2001) and applies a thematic analysis to the discussed paradigms (cf. Bonami & Boyé 2003). Three issues of Catalan inflexion are addressed. The first concerns the tendency to reduce, from phonological rules, the material inventory stored in the lexicon. Taking into account a large amount of data demonstrates that some analyses are based on underlying representations that do not always appear at the surface level and that some of the postulated phonological processes are not systematic. The second issue refers to verbs division into inflectional classes and to regular and irregular distinction. The analysis we propose is opposed to previous works in that classes division merges from the different configurations induced by inflectional forms themselves and that regularity is determined from a set of default implicative relations. The third issue concerns gender expression in nominal and adjectival inflection (including in the past participle forms of verbs). In this research work, final nominal sequences are dissociated from gender expression. They are considered as stem elements and contribute to define, in association with unpredictable stem variations, a set of inflectional classes deviating from the one proposed in previous works
L’objectiu d’aquesta tesi és l’estudi de la flexió dels verbs, dels noms i dels adjectius en català central estàndard. Segueix una concepció inferencial i realitzacional de la morfologia (cf. Stump 2001) i aplica una anàlisi temàtica als paradigmes estudiats (cf. Bonami & Boyé 2003). En aquest model, l’expressió de les propietats morfosintàctiques, considerades com l’aplicació d’operacions fonològiques a un lexema, són parcialment independents de les unitats que les realitzen. Aquest treball es focalitza principalment en tres problemàtiques fonamentals de la flexió verbal i nominal del català : (1) la tendència a reduir la informació memoritzada a partir de regles fonològiques, (2) el repartiment dels verbs en classes flexionals i (3) l’expressió del gènere dins la flexió nominal i adjectival. La primera problemàtica concerneix la tendència a reduir, mitjançant regles fonològiques, l’inventari del material fonològic i morfològic que cal memoritzar en català. Aquest tipus d’enfocament implica, en alguns treballs precedents, basar les anàlisis sobre representacions subjacents que mai no aparareixen al nivell superficial i postular processos fonològics que no tenen la regularitat esperada. La segona problemàtica abordada és la relativa al repartiment dels verbs en classes de flexió i a la distinció entre verbs regulars i irregulars. Tradicionalment, els verbs del català estan organitzats en tres classes flexionals, dues de les quals estan subdividides. En les anàlisis que no parteixen d’un criteri ortogràfic, aquesta tripartició es basa en la presència d’elements segmentals dins de les formes flexionals. El punt de desacord es troba principalment en el repartiment en subclasses i la identificació dels verbs irregulars de la classe II, que són diferents segons els autors (cf. Mascaró 1983 ; Viaplana 1986). D’acord amb la perspectiva que adopto, l’organització en classes flexionals sorgeix de les diferents configuracions que emergeixen de les formes flexionals. Un lexema regular correspon a un lexema el paradigma del qual es pot deduir completament a partir d’una forma i un conjunt de relacions implicatives per defecte. Com a conseqüència, el repartiment que proposo s’oposa als que ofereixen les gramàtiques tradicionals i els treballs més recents.La tercera problemàtica discutida en aquesta tesi es refereix a l’expressió del gènere dels noms i dels adjectius, incloses les formes del participi dels verbs. Tradicionalment, algunes seqüències finals dels nominals s’han analitzat com a marques de gènere o bé com a marcadores de classes flexionals. Tanmateix, els criteris definits per identificar-les són problemàtics. A més, les seqüències finals no permeten inferir de manera determinista el gènere o la classe d’un nominal. Segons l’anàlisi proposada en aquesta tesi, aquestes seqüències estan dissociades de l’expressió del gènere. Són elements que formen part del tema i que, juntament amb les variacions temàtiques que no són predictibles, permeten establir un conjunt de classes flexionals que s’allunya dels tractaments oferts en els treballs precedents
Tassa, Okombe-Lukumbu G. "La création lexicale spontanée en tetela (C.71): mécanismes et procédures." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211734.
Full textCollette, Vincent. "Description de la morphologie grammaticale du cri de l'Est (dialecte du Nord, Whapmagoostui)." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/25977.
Full textFarsani, Mohsen. "Etude lexicologique de la langue Bakhtiari d'Iran." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030090.
Full textWe begin by presenting the Bakhtiari people of Iran. This study summarises the diversity ofthese people: their history, origins and ethnic formation, the places they inhabit and the cycleof their travels since they began the practice of transhumance.We studied the manner in which operations and economy are incorporated into bakhtiariculture, including the more traditional aspects of the organisation of family life. We thenundertook an in-depth study of the bakhtiari language. We have studied this language and itsevolution from its origins to what we know today. We studied it phonetically usinginformation on letters, sounds and organisation of the phonetic system of the bakhtiarilanguage. We then developed a study of grammar and syntax of the language as we knowand practice it. It is important to note that this is primarily an oral language and there is nocomprehensive study of the grammar in both its morphology and syntax. Therefore, ourstudy is very important in documenting this aspect of the bakhtiari language.We have been able to conduct this study because for years our family have lived alongsidethe Bakhtiari people and we have experienced conversations and meetings with storytellersand poets who keep the language alive and allow us to preserve and study their language…
Luo, Xiaoliang. "Vers une phonologie CVCV du chinois : analyse des interactions entre syllabe, ton et processus morphologiques." Phd thesis, Université d'Orléans, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00965111.
Full textFournier, Pierre. "Accentuation et prononciation des suffixés en -ous en anglais contemporain." Thesis, Tours, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011TOUR2013/document.
Full textThe influence of the suffix -ous on the English phonological system is considerable. Its impact is materialized on word-stress assignment, as well as on the phonetic realisation of stressed vowels. The study of this particular suffix generates a global perspective on the functioning of the English system since -ous is a blend of the fundamental principles which rule the English stress system. This analysis falls within the framework of the morphophonological theory, which favours an interaction between the morphological and phonological levels. The concept of morphological boundary is essential to the operation of word-stress assignment and represents a key-notion inside this theoretical framework. However, the impact of the suffix -ous on word-stress assignment and on the pronunciation of stressed vowels has already been investigated through several theoretical approaches. The most significant results of these previous studies are expounded in the theoretical part. The phonological frameworks are then compared in order to determine their assets and their drawbacks. Word-stress assignment only represents the first side of this work. Indeed, the assignment of primary stress on the syllabic structure of a word has a consequence on the phonetic realisation of stressed vowels. They are "fully" realised, and the succession of stressed and unstressed syllabes creates the notion of rythm in English. Resorting to spelling enables to predict the pronunciation of stressed vowels through the application of a hierarchical system of rules. These rules, elaborated on the particularities of English spelling, operate a transfer from spelling to sounds
Bahule, Orlando Albino. "Aspects of verbal morphophonology of Cilenge with special reference to negation and tense markers." Diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24336.
Full textNegation and tense markers in the verb structure have been the subject of diverse linguistic descriptions, especially in Bantu languages. In Mozambique, however, many Bantu languages, including Cilenge, have not been sufficiently studied. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to examine tense and negation in Cilenge, with special reference to the strategies used to indicate negation and various tenses, from data collected in the Valenge community in Chidenguele, Manjacaze district, Gaza province. The study has shown that this language has wide categories of the past, while the future may be closer or distant and the present appears as focused, habitual, continuous and progressive. The variation and positioning of tense markers are mainly determined by the characteristics of the verb root. In relation to negation, Cilenge employs three strategies: the negative concord, the post-initial and the post-verbal. In some contexts, negative markers may also signal tense.
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"The architecture of grammar in artificial grammar learning: Formal biases in the acquisition of morphophonology and the nature of the learning task." INDIANA UNIVERSITY, 2009. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3358981.
Full textBechara, Joelle. "Évaluation de la production morphosyntaxique chez un enfant québécois francophone porteur d'implant cochléaire." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/13457.
Full textSkhosana, Philemon Buti. "The linguistic relationship between Southern and Northern Ndebele." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28563.
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Girard, Raphaël. "Aspects de la morphophonologie de l'Aymara." Mémoire, 2007. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/775/1/M9962.pdf.
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