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A grammar of Pite Saami, 2014

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3.1 Consonants<br />

(120) /tijstak/ dijstak<br />

[tijstakʰ]<br />

‘Tuesday\nom.sg’<br />

(121) /aːjʰte-n/ ájten<br />

[aːjj̥ten]<br />

‘shed-iness.sg’<br />

(122) /aːjːʰtaː-j/ ájjtáj<br />

[aːjj̥ːtaːj]<br />

‘shed-ill.sg’<br />

[pit081017.00m57s]<br />

[pit100310b.100]<br />

[6676]<br />

3.1.1.7.6 Geminate central approximant The segment /jː/ is a geminate central<br />

approximant. It only occurs in the consonant center, and becomes devoiced<br />

[jj̥ː] towards the end <strong>of</strong> its realization when preceding a preaspirated phoneme.<br />

Examples are found in (123) as well as (122) above.<br />

(123) /paːjːa-t/ bájjat<br />

[paːjːatʰ]<br />

‘let-inf’<br />

[3439]<br />

3.1.1.8 Sonorants and preaspiration<br />

All sonorant phonemes become devoiced towards the end <strong>of</strong> their realization<br />

when preceding a preaspirated plosive or affricate. 13 Since preaspiration is limited<br />

to the consonant center, this devoicing is (with the exception <strong>of</strong> word-final<br />

devoiced /r/) also limited to the consonant center. Some near minimal pairs are<br />

listed in (124) through (131).<br />

(124) /parːko/ barrgo<br />

[parːko]<br />

‘job\nom.sg’<br />

(125) /paːrːʰko/ bárrko<br />

[paːrr̥ːko]<br />

‘bark\nom.sg’<br />

(126) /kaːmːpal/ gámbal<br />

[kaːmːpal] ‘old’<br />

(127) /kumːʰpe/ gummpe<br />

[kumm̥ ːpe] ‘wolf\nom.sg’<br />

(128) /riŋːko/ riŋŋgo<br />

[rɪŋːko]<br />

‘lasso.ring\nom.sg’<br />

[0146]<br />

[0147]<br />

[2493]<br />

[0671]<br />

[2326]<br />

13 Cf. §3.1.1.5.3 for essentially the same phenomenon in voiced fricative phonemes.<br />

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