Nói Lái and the structure of the syllable
Representational units like the segment and syllable remain controversial and are claimed by some to be artifacts of literacy. Drawing on three centuries of Vietnamese nói lái—a linguistic form in which parts of words are switched—in oral folk tales, poetry, discourse, and popular culture, t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177931 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Representational units like the segment and syllable remain
controversial and are claimed by some to be artifacts of literacy.
Drawing on three centuries of Vietnamese nói lái—a linguistic form
in which parts of words are switched—in oral folk tales, poetry,
discourse, and popular culture, this paper documents the structure of
eight nói lái types. The data provide compelling evidence for (i) the
psychologically reality of the ‘segment’, ‘feature’, ‘tone’, ‘syllable’,
‘onset’, and ‘rhyme’ as constituents of phonological representations;
(ii) the autonomy of phonology, and (iii) the independence of
phonological constituents from literacy and the constraints of both
the nôm and quốc ngữ writing systems for Vietnamese. |
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