Ebook: Preaspiration in western Yugur monosyllables

Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag, 1998. — 28-41 pp. Turcologica 32, the Maintz meeting. Proceedings of the 7 th International Conference on Turkish linguistics, August 3-6, 1994. Edited by Lars Juhanson.
ISBN 3447038640The phonemic analysis of western Yugur as will be presented below starts out from the aforementioned written sources. It appears, however, that the number and quality of the phonemes and allophones, analysed by the different authors for western Yugur, differ. For example, Tenišev, Chen, and Lei distinguish aspirated, retroflex and alveo-palatal consonants, while Malov does not. Variant forms abound, part of which seem to be due to sandhi phenomena. Materials recorded in August 1994 from Mr. Zhong Jinwen, a 31-year-old native speaker of Western Yugur, have been taken into consideration as well.