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    Chapter 2

    Contrastive Phonology

    Kurtöp phonology has been described in depth in several publications, first


    in Michailovsky & Mazaudon (1994) and then later in more detail in Hyslop
    (2006, 2008b, 2009). The current discussion on phonology summarizes these
    previous findings and includes an updated analysis. The data presented in this
    chapter is in IPA while the following chapters use the practical orthography
    (described in §2.6).
    The organization of this chapter is as follows: §2.1 presents the consonantal
    phonemes, beginning with the obstruents and then discussing sonorants; §2.2
    shows the distribution of consonants in complex onsets; while §2.3 discusses
    their distribution as codas. §2.4 discusses vowels and §2.5 discuss supraseg-
    mental features, namely tone and vowel length. The final section, §2.6, intro-
    duces the practical orthography, which will be used from chapter 3 on.

    2.1 Consonant Phonemes

    Kurtöp contrasts fifteen stops, three fricatives, two affricates, two laterals, one
    rhotic, four nasals, two glides and a glottal aspirate, shown in Table 21. A sub-
    set of the Kurtöp consonant phonemes may be combined to make complex
    onsets; these are illustrated in Figure 9.

    Table 2 Kurtöp consonant phonemes

    Labial Dental Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal

    stops p, pʰ, b t, tʰ, d ʈ, ʈʰ, ɖ c, cʰ, ɟ k, kʰ, g (ʔ)


    affricates ts, tsʰ
    fricatives s, z ç h
    nasals m n ɲ ŋ
    laterals l, l̥

    1 The use of parentheses with the glottal stop indicates this segment has not been found to be
    phonemically contrastive; it only precedes vocalic high-toned initials and occurs occasion-
    ally in place of coda /k/. The glottal stop should not be confused with orthographic <’>, used
    to represent a high tone. See §2.6.2.

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    Contrastive Phonology 31

    Labial Dental Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal

    rhotics r
    glides w j

    2.1.1 Obstruents
    Kurtöp stops make a three-way VOT (voiceless unaspirated, voiceless aspirated,
    voiced) contrast at five places of articulation, as shown in Table 2. There is a
    two-way VOT contrast amongst the affricates (aspirated and unaspirated) and
    the dental fricatives (voiced and voiceless), while the palatal fricative occurs
    only voiceless synchronically (see §2.5.1 for a description of a recent histori-
    cal sound change which has collapsed a previous voiced/voiceless distinction).
    With the exception of the voiceless palatal fricative, which can co-occur with
    both high and low tone, I am treating the pitch on the vowel following the
    obstruents as part of the voicing contrast.

    2.1.1.1 Stops
    The contrast between the stops is illustrated by the near-minimal set in
    Table 32.

    Table 3 Minimal set showing Kurtöp stops

    Phoneme Example Gloss

    /p/ pɐ́: ‘slice.of.meat’


    /pʰ/ pʰɐ́ʔ ~ pʰɐ́k ~ pʰɐ́: ‘pig’
    /b/ bɐ̀ ‘target’

    2 The examples are not perfect minimal pairs for the following reasons. As described in §2.5.1,
    tone in Kurtöp is phonemically contrastive on initial syllables following sonorant onsets.
    Following most (all except the palatal fricative) obstruents, pitch is predictably high if the
    onset is voiceless and low if the onset is voiced; in other words, I treat the “voicing” contrast
    as a bundle of acoustic features, involving, minimally, voice onset time and pitch on the fol-
    lowing vowel. Other than different pitch, one may also note that in some cases a long vowel
    or vowel plus coda is contrasted with a short vowel. Despite these differences, the data suffice
    to show the contrast made between the different stop types.

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