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Chapter1.DomainstructureconditionsinVilamovianandEnglish
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or27consonantalsegment,8–9monophthongs/iɨʏeóaɑɔu/,and
6diphthongs/ɪ-yóeɪó-aɪɔy/(Ritchie2012:34).Englishbycom-
parisonpossesses24consonants,7short,and5longmonophthongs,
aswellas8diphthongs.Theauthorsarenotunanimousastothe
distinctivelengthcontrastswithinthevocalicsystemofVilamovian.
Someresearchersmaintainthatvowelsshouldbedistinguishedonthe
basisofqualitydistinctions.Yet,WicherkiewiczandZieniukowa(2001:
499–500)indicatethatVilamoviandoespossesslexicalquantitycon-
trasts.Ahandfulofexamples(6)areprovidedbelow
.
(6)[A]
[Al]
[e]
[e:]
[i]
[i:]
[u]
[u:]
hac
naacht
fretak
eer
nist
kii
muter
kuu
<heart’
<night’
<Friday’
<honour’
<nist’
<cows’
<mother’
<cow’
TherecognitionofdistinctivelengthcontrastsmeansthatVilamovian
employsbothnon-branchingandbranchingnuclearstructureswithin
phonologicaldomains.Aswillberevealedpresently
,thisfactalsohas
certainconsequencesforthesyllabificationofconsonantclusters.In-
terestingly
,acloserexaminationofFlorianBiesik’spoemsleadsusto
theconclusionthattheconsonantalsystemofVilamovianalsoexhibits
contrastivelengthdistinctions.Consequently
,wecanfindgeminated
consonantsinthislanguage,whichinspellingisindicatedbydoubling
agivenletter.Thus,Biesikprovidesuswithsuchexamplesaskenna,
besser,byssa,ceryssa,fetta,cyttyn,rytta.Admittedly
,suchsourcesas
Lasatowicz(1992)orKleczkowski(1920)donotmentiontheexistence
ofconsonantalgeminatesinVilamovian.Becauseofthelackofdatathat
wouldhelpusdecidewhichstandpointisthecorrectone,theproblem
ofgeminateswillnotbepursuedinthisstudy
.
Letusnowgroupthedataintocategoriescorrespondingtothose
employedintheanalysisoftheEnglishexamplespresentedabove(Zie-
niukowaandWicherkiewicz2001;Wicherkiewicz2003).
(7)a.
eer
hac
fretak<Friday’
śtükla<abit’
<honour’
<heart’
b.
dót
dójcz
naacht<night’
engl
nist
<there’
<angel’
<short’
<German’
c.
trynkia
<drink’
tąchter
<daughter’
śtükla
<abit’
prydikśtül<pulpit’
bytła
<keg’
d.
cwejnłik<twins’
cankner<centner’
