Navajo phonology | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-17

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Navajo phonology


00:00:47 1 Consonants
00:01:00 1.1 Phonetics
00:06:20 1.2 Velar span/ɣ/
00:10:42 1.3 Voicing assimilation
00:13:14 1.4 Dorsal place assimilation
00:13:52 1.5 Coronal harmony
00:14:31 1.6 D-effect
00:16:26 1.7 Other
00:16:39 2 Vowels
00:18:06 2.1 Acoustic phonetics
00:18:37 3 Tones
00:20:16 3.1 Tonological processes
00:22:30 4 Syllable
00:23:55 4.1 Peg elements, segment insertion
00:25:19 5 Notes
00:25:28 6 Bibliography
00:28:10 7 Further reading



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SUMMARY
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The phonology of Navajo is intimately connected to its morphology. For example, the entire range of contrastive consonants is found only at the beginning of word stems. In stem-final position and in prefixes, the number of contrasts is drastically reduced. Similarly, vowel contrasts (including their prosodic combinatory possibilities) found outside of the stem are significantly neutralized.
Like most Athabascan languages, Navajo is coronal heavy, having many phonological contrasts at coronal places of articulation and less at other places. Also typical of the family, Navajo has a limited number of labial sounds, both in terms of its phonemic inventory and in their occurrence in actual lexical items and displays of consonant harmony.