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Phonetic rarities in Pirahã1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Daniel Leonard Everett
Daniel Leonard Everett
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(Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
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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.

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Research Article
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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , December 1982 , pp. 94 - 96
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1982

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