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- Language Family: Kwa
- Topic #1: Morphophonemics
Apart from Akan Vowel Harmony, which has received a great deal of discussion, all the other assimilatory processes in Akan have not received adequate attention, in the existing literature. This paper is therefore designed to fill a vacuum. We accordingly discuss assimilatory processes like palatalization, coronalization, stridentization/sibilantization, labialization, dorsalization and labial palatalization in Akan. We distinguish between palatalization and coronalization, which have hitherto been considered as one and the same phonological process placed under palatalization. We consequently assume in this paper that palatalization, coronalization and stridentization in Akan are related but different processes, which occur in the same phonetic environment. We have also established a distinction between labialization and dorsalization in Akan in this paper. Whereas labialization applies to consonantals, dorsalization is tied in with vowels in Akan. Labialized consonants retain both their primary/major and secondary/minor articulations at the phonetic surface. A dorsalized vowel, on the other hand, changes absolutely from its lexical V-Place [Coronal] articulation to an absolute V-Place [Dorsal]/[Labial] articulation.
A part l’harmonie vocalique de l’akan qui a été beaucoup discutée, les autres processus d’assimilation n’ont pas reçu d’attention adéquate dans la littérature existante. Ce travail a pour but donc de combler un vide. Nous traitons, en conséquence, des processus d’assimilation telles que la palatalisation, la coronalisation, la stridentisation/sibilantisation, la labialisation, la dorsalisation et la palatalisation labiale en akan. Nous faisons la distinction entre la palatalisation et la coronalisation qui ont été jusqu’ici considérées comme le même processus unique placé sous la palatalisation et la coronalisation. Notre hypothese de base ici est que la palatalisation, la coronalisation et la stridentisation en akan sont des processus presque similaires tout en restant différents et qui se réalisent dans le même environnement phonétique. Nous avons aussi établi dans ce travail une distinction entre la labialisation et la dorsalisation en akan. Alors que la labialisation s’applique aux consonantiques, la dorsalisation est liée aux voyelles en akan. Les consonnes labialisées retiennent leurs articulations primaires/majeures ainsi que secondaires/mineures en phonétique de surface. Une voyelle dorsalisée, par contre, change complètement son articulation coronale dans sa position lexicale en une articulation [dorsale]/[labiale].