Things to look at in Kyrgyz dialects: Difference between revisions

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Rounding harmony systems
How far through a word harmony spreads
Monopthongisation — phonetic and phonological
Tonogenesis
Acoustic properties of vowel system
- [reduction and diphthongisation of] high vowels (Russified in Bishkek, Kazakhified in Talas?)
- low vowels as related to rounding harmony
The 9th vowel, phonemic?
Figure out the stress system
Sonority
- /r.l/ → [r.d], [r.l]?
- sonority of /n/ suffix-initially like glide?

Age
Urbanisation (city, village, steppe)
Multilingualism (esp. influence from Russian (Bishkek), Kazakh (Talas), Uzbek (Osh))
Tribe, apparently

Improve own Kyrgyz skills
Begin collecting lesser, non-experimental data
Prepare experiments
- Consult with & work with local scholars
- Design experiments
- File for human subjects approval
Data collection plan
- Decide on areas of most interest
- Plan travel

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-What to look at:
+== Linguistic topics ==
+=== What to look at ===
 * Rounding harmony systems
 * How far through a word harmony spreads
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 ** sonority of /n/ suffix-initially like glide?
-By:
+=== By ===
 * Age
 * Urbanisation (city, village, steppe)
 * Multilingualism (esp. influence from Russian (Bishkek), Kazakh (Talas), Uzbek (Osh))
 * Tribe, apparently
+== Goals in Kyrgyzstan, round 1 ==
+* Improve own Kyrgyz skills
+* Begin collecting lesser, non-experimental data
+* Prepare experiments
+** Consult with & work with local scholars
+** Design experiments
+** File for human subjects approval
+* Data collection plan
+** Decide on areas of most interest
+** Plan travel
+== Goals in Kyrgyzstan, round 2 ==
+* Travel and collect data
+* …
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