Phonology in Truku Seediq

Phonology in Truku Ser is organized as follows. First, the literature pertaining to the phonology in the Seediq dialects is reviewed. Secondly, a description on the Thirdly, both
on vowel space and vowel distance in relation to gender and stress. So far as phonology is concerned, Yang 1976 presents a detailed study
on the Paran dialect, describing its phonemic inventory with eighteen consonants and five vowels, as well as seventeen morphophonemic rules. This paper provides a comprehensive study on the phonological system in the dialect, and has long served as a basis for the later discussions, such as Li 1977, 1991 . Li 1991 revises Yang’s 1976 rules, including vowel The latter occurs only
The data in this paper are collected from the two townships of See Appendix I for the map
Hsiu-lin and Wan-jung in Hualien County. showing the geographical locations.
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In this paper we use ‘Paran’ instead of ‘Tgdaya/Tkdaya’ for the following reasons: 1 the 2 In Seediq, the prefix former is more specific in terms of location, i.e. the Wushe area; tg- means ‘towards’, and daya means ‘above’. Therefore, the term Tgdaya is considered as being used to refer to the people who lived or came from the higher mountainous areas; 3 whether it should be ‘Tgdaya’ or ‘Tkdaya’ remains inconsistent. The Paran speakers consider themselves as Tgdaya, while the Truku informants tend to pronounce it as [tkdaya]. This figure is based on the censor conducted by The Council of Indigenous Peoples, Executive Yuan in 2009.
Although relatively high intelligibility is still maintained, the Truku dialect is somewhat different from the other Seediq dialects such as the Paran dialect Yang, 1976; Li, 1977; Chang, 2000 due to long-term areal separation.
Chang, 1996; Chang, 1997, 2000; Holmer, 1996 Tsukida 2005, 2006 2005
have focused on syntax in the Truku dialect.
and Chiang’s
paper on vowel dispersion in Truku is an acoustic study
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1.Introduction
Seediq is a Formosan language belonging to the Atayalic subgroup 1981 . It consists of three dialects: Paran 1, Truku, and Toda. Li, This paper
Key words : phonology, Seediq, Truku dialect, Formosan languages
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An earlier version of this article was presented at the 16th meeting of the Linguistic Circle for the Study of Eastern Eurasian Languages, 5 December 2009, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, ), Mitsuaki Endo ( where I was benefitted from the discussion with Tsuchida Shigeru ( ), and Nojima Motoyasu ( ). This research project was funded by National Science Council NSC 97-2410-H-259-075 , Taiwan. Thanks also go to National Dong Hwa University for reimbursing my travel to Tokyo. The comments and suggestions from the two anonymous reviewers are deeply appreciated. Any remaining errors are my responsibilities. Much gratitude also goes to the following informants who patiently and zealously share with me their knowledge of this language, without whom this paper would not be able to complete: , born in 1955, Male, Tkijig village—Chung-teh, Hsiu-lin, Hualien), (1) Tusi Yudaw (李 , born in 1955, Male, Ciakiang village—Hsi-lin, Wan-jung, Hualien), and (2) Jiro Ubus ( , born in 1937, Female, Mowrisaka village—Wan-jung, Wan-jung, (3) Aki Pitay ( Hualien).
These differences are manifested in phonology, the lexicon, and morphological structures. Built on Tsukida’s 2005 brief description on some phonological
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Taiwan Journal of Indigenous Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 123-68, Autumn 2010
Phonology in Truku Seediq*
Amy Pei-jung Lee
Assistant Professor, Department of Indigenous Languages and Communication National Dong Hwa University, Shoufeng, Hualien, Taiwan
Abstract
This article is a fieldwork report on phonology in Seediq, with a focus on the Truku dialect, which is mainly spoken in the eastern part of Taiwan. Toda. Seediq is a Formosan language belonging to the Atayalic This article provides a study on Truku phonology with a subgroup, which is comprised of three main dialects: Paran, Truku, and data-oriented approach, including phonemic inventory, phonotactic distribution and restrictions, syllable structure, stress assignment, phonological rules, and morphophonemic alternations.
aspects in this dialect, this paper aims to provide a more comprehensive study on Truku phonology with a data-oriented approach, including phonemic inventory, syllable structure, stress assignment, phonological rules, and morphophonemic alternations.