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- Language Family: Grassfields
- Topic #1: Vowels
- Topic #2: Phonology
Vowel raising in Babanki
Vowel raising in Babanki, a language of northwestern Cameroon is manifested through the alternations between a, o and o, u respectively in associative and possessive constructions just in case they are part of the sequence Vñ (where V stands for vowel) as in taàñ ‘hill’ and toà gheà ‘your hill’; kóèñ ‘love’ and kuè waèyn ‘child’s love.’ The same alternation also occurs with the V of this Vñ sequence in certain verbal constructions. To account for this vowel raising, it is proposed that this is the result of the association of the floating features [+hi,+ATR, +bk] which constitute the underlying features of the vowel í that never surfaces after the ñ sound. The analysis proposed in this paper also exploits the featural make-up of the vowels as underlyingly underspecified.
Le rehaussement des voyelles en babanki, langue du Nord-Ouest Cameroun se manifeste par les alternances entre a, o et o, u, selon le cas, dans les tournures associatives et possessives, là où elles font partie d'une séquence Vñ (où V représente une voyelle), comme dans taàñ 'colline' et toà gheà 'ta colline', kóèñ 'amour' et kuè waèyn 'amour d'enfant'. La même alternance se présente dans la V de cette séquence Vñ dans certaines tournures verbales. Pour expliquer ce rehaussement vocalique on propose qu'il résulte des traits flottants [+hi, +ATR,+bk] (soit [+haut,+ATR,+postérieur]), lesquels sont les traits sous-jacents de la voyelle i qui ne se manifeste jamais après ñ. L'analyse que propose cette étude exploite également l'ensemble des traits des voyelles dont la spécification sous-jacente reste incomplète.