The Rephonologization of Portuguese Loanwords in Kimpombo： A Generative CV Phonology Model Account  

作　　者：Antonio Filipe Augusto 

机构地区：[1]Instituto Superior Ciencias da Educacao--ISCED/Luanda, Luanda, Angola

出　　处：《US-China Foreign Language》2012年第9期1547-1563,共17页美中外语（英文版）

摘　　要：This paper looks at the rephonologization of Portuguese words in Kimpombo---a variety of Kikongo spoken in Sanza Pombo which is one of the 17 municipalities of the northern Angolan province of Uige. The main focus the study is on how processes such as vowel and glide epenthesis, as well as vowel deletion conspire to maintain the syllable structure of the receiving language--Kimpombo. The findings of this study reveal that there are four main strategies that Kimpombo utilizes in order to accommodate the new lexical items in the language to its syllable phonological structure. This is done by breaking consonant clusters through epenthetic vowels, breaking diphthongs and triphthongs and/or vowel sequences either by glide epenthesis or vowel deletion, as well as opening closed syllables by the means of an epenthetic vowel, since the phonological system of the language does not allow complex onsets, codas, and complex syllable nuclei in its phonological structure. These phonological processes are motivated by the fact that the acceptable syllable structure in Kimpombo is of the CV （consonant-vowel） structure. The generative CV phonology model of syllable structure （Clements ＆ Keyser, 1983; Blevins, 1995） is applied to analyze the processes. All the examples used in this study are from the researcher since he is a mother tongue speaker of both languages.

关 键 词：Kimpombo Sanza Pombo vowel epenthesis glide epenthesis conspire phonological structure and CV.（consonant-vowel） structure 

分 类 号：TN912.3[电子电信—通信与信息系统] H311[电子电信—信息与通信工程]