Vowel Devoicing in Cusco Collao Quechua
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This paper presents the first description of vowel devoicing in Quechua. The characteristics of the process as well as the environments most conducive to its occurrence are reported based on an analysis of 4062 vowels extracted from interviews with 16 speakers of the Cusco Collao dialect. Patterns of Quechua vowel devoicing appear to be generally consistent with the gestural overlap model that has been utilized to explain similar phenomena in other languages. The finding that Quechua vowel devoicing is morphologically conditioned, being largely concentrated in a small group of frequently-occurring suffixes, is interpreted as a usage-based effect.
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