Keywords

ideophonic vs. prosaic phonology, Pastaza Quichua (Kichwa) field data, ideophone corpus from narrative and conversational speech

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to clarify the relationship between ideophonic phonology and prosaic phonology in a dialect of Quichua (aka Kichwa). Our data are derived primarily from field studies within the Pastaza Province of Amazonian Ecuador, with speakers originating from the Montalvo area and the adjacent community of Puka Yaku. Altogether, we have amassed over 2,300 tokens of ideophonic use drawn from casual conversational exchanges, historical legends, folktales and myths.

Original Publication Citation

Janis Nuckolls, Joseph A. Stanley, Elizabeth Nielsen, and Roseanna Hopper. “The systematic stretching and adjusting of ideophonic phonology in Pastaza Quichua”. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of America (SSILA 2013). Boston, MA. January 3–6, 2013.