L'aspiration en basque: phonématique et analogie / Aspiration in Basque: phonematics and analogy

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Argitaratua 2025-07-14
Jean-Philippe Gonzalez-Eppherre Beñat Oihartzabal

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This study is divided into two parts. First, it examines the phenomenon of Basque aspiration in its diachronic and diatopic occurrences and extensions, considering its various manifestations as borrowing, analogical imitation, and prosodic reinforcement, as well as its etymological basis. Second, building upon this examination, a hypothesis is proposed regarding the phonetic origin of aspiration in Basque, suggesting that it results from the articulatory weakening of a former uvular fricative phoneme that has since disappeared (see also Manterola & Hualde 2021, who independently arrive at a similar conclusion). The general conclusion of the study, therefore, is that modern Basque aspiration originates, first, from the evolution of an ancient phoneme, and second, from a geographically circumscribed phonotactic phenomenon involving the purely analogical extension of that phoneme.

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Gonzalez-Eppherre, Jean-Philippe, eta Beñat Oihartzabal. 2025. «L’aspiration En Basque: phonématique Et Analogie / Aspiration in Basque: Phonematics and Analogy». Anuario Del Seminario De Filología Vasca "Julio De Urquijo" 59 (1):177-211. https://doi.org/10.1387/asju.27517.
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