Correspondences between Syllable Structures of Andic Languages

Student: Averin Arseniy

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Computational Linguistics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2021

Syllable structure analysis is thought to be a difficult research area due to the difficulty to define syllable borders, although it appears to be significant during language description and typology analysis. This paper conducts a research on the syllable structure of eight Andic languages (Akhvakh, Andi, Bagvalal, Botlikh, Chamalal, Godoberi, Karata and Tindi). The following research uses computational analysis methods descripted in (Moroz, 2019) and (Romanova, 2018), which allows one to analyse phonological features based on lexical data such as dictionaries. The following results are get: the similarity of syllable structures has been observed in all languages, with Akhvakh having the most simple and Bagvalal the most comples structures. All but one languages tend to have sonorants as a coda more often than obstruents.

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