@article{93e1785873ea440b9acf8e35dbcfa094,
title = "Vowel hiatus resolution in kavalan",
abstract = "This paper examines how vowel hiatus is handled in Kavalan, an endangered Formosan plains tribe language spoken by fewer than one hundred people on the eastern coast of Taiwan. Based on first-hand data, this paper shows that Kavalan is a language that typically disallows vowel sequences. Vowel hiatus is mainly resolved by gliding, but deletion occurs if the adjacent vowels are identical. While Kavalan generally disallows vowel hiatus, a low-high vowel sequence is tolerated before the word-final coda. The paper argues that the reason vowel hiatus unexpectedly occurs in such position is to prevent a post-vocalic vowel from gliding in a stressed syllable.",
keywords = "Deletion, Gliding, Kavalan, Optimality theory, Vowel hiatus",
author = "Lin, {Hui Shan}",
note = "Funding Information: I would like to thank the anonymous reviewers, whose detailed comments have helped improve the content of this paper greatly. I am also grateful to my Kavalan consultants Ariung (朱武雄), Jiang Qiu-ying (江秋英), Pan Jin-rong (潘金榮), Pan Wu-ji (潘烏吉), Ukit (潘金英), and especially my main consultant Sameg Engi (林阿份), for their help with the language data. Finally, I thank my assistants, Cheng-Ming Lin and Jia-Qi Luo for helping with data collection. This study was supported by the National Science Council, with the project number being NSC 102-2410-H-003-023-.",
year = "2018",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.6519/TJL.2018.16(1).3",
language = "English",
volume = "16",
pages = "53--93",
journal = "Taiwan Journal of Linguistics",
issn = "1729-4649",
publisher = "政治大學語言學研究所暨英國語文學系",
number = "1",
}