| dc.contributor.advisor |
Epps , Patience , 1973 - |
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| dc.contributor.committeeMember |
Woodbury , Anthony |
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| dc.creator |
Bolaños Quiñónez , Katherine Elizabeth |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2011 -02 -16T17 :35 :32Z |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2011 -02 -16T17 :35 :50Z |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2011 -08 -16T15 :52 :31Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2011 -02 -16T17 :35 :32Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2011 -02 -16T17 :35 :50Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2011 -08 -16T15 :52 :31Z |
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| dc.date.created |
2010 -12 |
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| dc.date.issued |
2011 -02 -16 |
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| dc.date.submitted |
December 2010 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http : / /hdl .handle .net /2152 /ETD -UT -2010 -12 -2485 |
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| dc.description.abstract |
This work presents a preliminary analysis of the phonology of Kakua , an endangered language of the Kakua -Nukak family (formerly classified as Makú ) . Kakua is spoken by approximately 300 people living in the Vaupés region of the Amazon rain forest , in northwest Amazonia , Eastern Colombia . This analysis is based on data collected with Kakua speakers from the village of Wacará , a settlement of approximately 120 people , living along the basin of Caño Wacará , located between the Querarí and the Vaupés Rivers , to the east of Mitú , close to the Colombia -Brazil borders .
The phonological inventory of Kakua includes five vowels and seventeen consonants . Kakua also presents contrastive prosodic features of nasalization and an inventory of three contrastive tones .
Kakua phonology presents various interesting typological features from both areal and cross -linguistic perspective . The work presented here is a first attempt to provide a better illustration of a little -known endangered language of Amazonia . |
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| dc.format.mimetype |
application /pdf |
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| dc.language.iso |
eng |
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| dc.subject |
Language description |
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| dc.subject |
Amazonian languages |
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| dc.subject |
Kakua |
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| dc.subject |
Phonology |
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| dc.subject |
Kakua -Nukak |
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| dc.title |
Kakua phonology : first approach |
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| dc.description.department |
Linguistics |
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| dc.type.genre |
thesis |
* |
| dc.type.material |
text |
* |
| thesis.degree.name |
Master of Arts |
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| thesis.degree.level |
Masters |
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| thesis.degree.discipline |
Linguistics |
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| thesis.degree.grantor |
University of Texas at Austin |
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| thesis.degree.department |
Linguistics |
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| dc.date.updated |
2011 -02 -16T17 :35 :50Z |
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