The phonology of Laze: phonemic analysis, syllabic inventory, and a short word list

Alexis Michaud (1) , Guillaume Jacques (2)

1 LACITO - Langues et civilisations à tradition orale
2 CRLAO - Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale

Laze is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in the county of Muli, in Sichuan, by a population of less than 1,000. The article proposes a synchronic account of Laze phonology, supplemented by a list of about 1,400 words in the Appendix. A phonemic analysis is proposed, with an inventory of syllables that brings to light the synchronic distributional properties of Laze onsets and rhymes - properties that are crucial to ongoing research into the historical phonology of the subgroup of Sino-Tibetan to which Laze belongs.

Mots clés: Sino-Tibetan; Laze; Muli Shuitian; syllabic inventory; word list; phonemes; phonology

Domaines: Linguistique

Alexis Michaud, Guillaume Jacques. The phonology of Laze: phonemic analysis, syllabic inventory, and a short word list. Yuyanxue Luncong 语言学论丛, 2012, 45, pp.196-230. ⟨halshs-00582639v1⟩