A brief descriptive grammar of Pijal Media Lengua and an acoustic vowel space analysis of Pijal Media Lengua and Imbabura Quichua

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dc.contributor.authorStewart, Jesse
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeHagiwara, Robert (Linguistics) Fernandez, Enrique (French, Spanish and Italian)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorRussell, Kevin (Linguistics)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-09-10T18:15:45Z
dc.date.available2011-09-10T18:15:45Z
dc.date.issued2011-09-10
dc.degree.disciplineLinguisticsen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis presents an acoustic vowel space analysis of F1 and F2 frequencies from 10 speakers of Pijal Media Lengua (PML) and 10 speakers of Imbabura Quichua (IQ). This thesis also provides a brief grammatical discription of PML with insights into contrasts and similarities between Spanish, Quichua and other documented varieties of Media Lengua (ML). ML is typically described as a mixed language with a Quichua morphosyntactic structure where almost all content words are replaced by their Spanish-derived counterparts through the process of relexification. I use mixed effects models to test for statistical significance between PML Spanish-derived vowels and Quichua-derived vowels. The results provide suggestive data for (1) co-existing vowel systems in moderate contact situations and (2) moderate evidence for co-exsiting vowel systems in extreme contact situations. Results also show that PML may be manipulating as many as eight vowels and IQ as many as six.en_US
dc.description.noteOctober 2011en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/4882
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectLinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectAcousticsen_US
dc.subjectPhoneticsen_US
dc.subjectContact Languagesen_US
dc.subjectMedia Lenguaen_US
dc.subjectEcuadoren_US
dc.subjectQuichuaen_US
dc.subjectQuechuaen_US
dc.subjectVowelsen_US
dc.subjectLanguageen_US
dc.titleA brief descriptive grammar of Pijal Media Lengua and an acoustic vowel space analysis of Pijal Media Lengua and Imbabura Quichuaen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
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