Phonetic rarities in Pirahã

1 June 1982

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the International Phonetic Association

Vol. 12 (2) , 94-96
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025100300002498

Abstract

Pirahã is interesting from both a phonetic and a phonological perspective. While possessing an apparently simple phonemic inventory (consisting of eight consonants, three vowels and two tones) it demonstrates a great deal of variation at the phonetic level. It is the purpose of this paper to document two phonetic rarities in Pirahã, one of which, [i] has been recorded for no other language, to the knowledge of the present writer.

Keywords

RARITIES IN PIRAHÃ
PHONETIC RARITIES
PRESENT WRITER
EIGHT CONSONANTS
SIMPLE PHONEMIC
TWO TONES
APPARENTLY SIMPLE

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

The Grammatical Hierarchy of Isthmus Zapotec
Language, 1960
Phonetics
Published by University of Michigan Library ,1943