VOWEL ALTERNATION IN DISYLLABIC REDUPLICATIVES AN AREAL DIMENSION 英文论文文献.docVIP

ESUKA – JEFUL 2011, 2 – 1: 185 – 193 VOWEL ALTERNATION IN DISYLLABIC REDUPLICATIVES: AN AREAL DIMENSION Shinji Ido Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music Abstract. This paper analyzes a variety of languages with regard to vowel alternation patterns in their disyllabic sound symbolic reduplicatives (DSRs). The analysis reveals that (1) a number of different languages have their preferred patterns of vowel alterna- tion for DSRs (e.g. /I/-/?/ in ding-dong and tick-tock in English) and (2) the relative height of each vowel against the other in a DSR is a linguistic feature th