![As my previous post suggests, today is a linguistics-and-LaTeX day for me. I’m writing about Akan, the language I “adopted” for study in my African linguistics class. The image above shows autosegmental derivations from the word /fʊnɔ/ (‘to be emaciated’) in three dialects of Akan. Depending on the dialect, /fɔnʊ/ can be realized as [fɔ̃n], [fɔ̃ŋ] or [fɔ̃ʊ̃]. The sound changes at work in these words are fairly simple but the dialectal divergence and variety here is kind of nuts. [Data via E. N. Abakah, “Phonological analysis of word-final consonants in Akan”, 2005.]](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_krv9ubTaWZ1qznraho1_500.png)
As my previous post suggests, today is a linguistics-and-LaTeX day for me. I’m writing about Akan, the language I “adopted” for study in my African linguistics class. The image above shows autosegmental derivations from the word /fʊnɔ/ (‘to be emaciated’) in three dialects of Akan. Depending on the dialect, /fɔnʊ/ can be realized as [fɔ̃n], [fɔ̃ŋ] or [fɔ̃ʊ̃]. The sound changes at work in these words are fairly simple but the dialectal divergence and variety here is kind of nuts. [Data via E. N. Abakah, “Phonological analysis of word-final consonants in Akan”, 2005.]
