The Change of ɻɻ to dd in Ṭyare Neo-Aramaic

The Change of ɻɻ to dd in Ṭyare Neo-AramaicBrill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and LinguisticsSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/S5E7GEAT/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.HezyMutzafiThe Change of ɻɻ to dd in Ṭyare Neo-Aramaichttp://syriaca.org/cbss/S5E7GEAThttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/S5E7GEAThttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/S5E7GEATBrill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics7:22015196-210The change of a rhotic consonant into a voiced dental one is unique to some dialects of Ṭyare Neo-Aramaic amongst all other Aramaic and Semitic languages. It is a conditioned change, operating only on the Ṭyare retroflex rhotic phoneme /ɻ/ and only when the latter is geminated, whereas the two other rhotic phonemes of the Ṭyare cluster of dialects, alveolar /r/ and emphatic alveolar /ṛ/, are left unaffected. The diachronic background of Ṭyare ɻɻ > dd is discussed after a survey of problematic aspects related to its treatment in previous scholarly works. The change of a rhotic consonant into a voiced dental one is unique to some dialects of Ṭyare Neo-Aramaic amongst all other Aramaic and Semitic languages. It is a conditioned change, operating only on the Ṭyare retroflex rhotic phoneme /ɻ/ and only when the latter is geminated, whereas the two other rhotic phonemes of the Ṭyare cluster of dialects, alveolar /r/ and emphatic alveolar /ṛ/, are left unaffected. The diachronic background of Ṭyare ɻɻ > dd is discussed after a survey of problematic aspects related to its treatment in previous scholarly works. Mutzafi, Hezy. “The Change of ɻɻ to Dd in Ṭyare Neo-Aramaic.” Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 7:2 (2015): 196–210. Hezy Mutzafi, The Change of ɻɻ to Dd in Ṭyare Neo-Aramaic,” Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 7:2 (2015): 196–210.Modern SyriacSyriac languageTyaregrammarphonology