Analysis of the Segmental Phonological System of Maleku Based on Previous Descriptions

• Autor: Krohn, Haakon S.
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/27960
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/lexis/article/view/27960
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Malecu; Fonología; Inventario fonémico; Rasgos distintivos; Maleku; Phonology; Phonemic inventory; Distinctive features

This paper is an analysis of the segmental phonological system of Maleku (Guatuso) on the basis of previously published phonological and phonetic descriptions. It has a particular focus on the distinctive features that contrast the phonemes, since no other publication has addressed this topic in detail before. In the patrimonial consonantal system, a total equivalence is established between the values of the features [sonorant] and [voice] if the phoneme classified as a voiced palatal fricative is considered a “sonorant fricative”. On the other hand, in the innovative system, which incorporates four phonemes borrowed from Spanish, the contrastivity of the feature [voice] is activated due to the introduction of voiced stop phonemes that contrast with the unvoiced stops.