Ebook: Issues in Mawo Qiang phonology

Taipei: Academia Sinica. Journal of Taiwanese Languages and Literature 2003, 1(1), 227–242 p.This paper provides a critical review of the analysis of Northern Qiang phonology (Mawo dialect), as presented in two major recent publications on Qiang linguistics. A number of problematic areas will be discussed, including the status of the glides, the vowel e, and certain types of consonant clusters, as well as the global issue of how phonology should properly reflect the interactions between stress and certain weakening processes. Analyses which seem simpler or more realistic will be offered; directions for further field investigation will also be suggested in the more dubious cases.