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Hungarian has seven basic vowel qualities occurring as long and short vowels at each place. The short vowels are generally lower and less peripheral 3. A language with the vowel system illustrated below is in the process of undergoing a change such that the low central vowel is moving towards the back of the space. Discuss the potential implications of this shift. Assume that there are no length distinctions. If the low vowel moves back it will start to encroach upon the low back vowel which may have to change in some way to prevent a merger. Think of different ways the system could cope with this potential conflict. e.g. the back vowel could become rounded or more probably it would start to rise. This might set up a chain of events that could affect the entire back dimension with all vowels rising. But there would be a problem with /u/ unable to go any higher. What might be the possible effects on /u/ e.g. fronting or diphthongisation. 4. A language has two diphthongs that rise from the low front and low back of the space. These diphthongs are closely associated with the two low monophthongs. Discuss the possible effect of monophthong raising on these two diphthongs. What impact might this have on the third diphthong in the language? Raising the two low monophthongs could cause a concomitant shift in the first target of the two associated diphthongs through the process of monophthong / diphthong interdependence. This would impact on the third diphthong because there would be two diphthongs in the system with the same trajectory pattern. This third diphthong would presumably also have to change to prevent merger.
5. The following is a corpus of words from French ̃ [si] “si” ‘if’ [se] “ses” ‘his,hers (p)’ [s] “sait” ‘knows’ [sy] “su” ‘known’ [sø] “ceux” ‘these’ [sœʁ] “soeur” ‘sister’ [sə] “ce” ‘this’ [sa] “sa” ‘his, hers (f)’ [su] “sous” ‘under’ [so] “sot” ‘silly’ [sɔʁ] “sort” ‘fate’ [sɑ̃̃] “sans” ‘without’ [sɔ̃] “son” ‘his,hers (m sg)’ [sɛ̃̃] “saint” ‘saint’ Plot the approximate position of the vowels on the chart below and comment on the system of vowels used in this language. /a/ is low central
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