Postvocalic aspiration in Urarina

[MuffinLinwist]

Converting the northernperu dataset into CLDF, I run into some CLTS sound class errors. Urarina faces processes of postvocalic aspiration in between syllables since the language does not accept consonants on coda position (Olawsky 2006, pp. 40-1). The solution adopted so far is to transcribe it in the ortho-profile as:

Grapheme	IPA
aʰ	!aʰ/a
iʰ	!iʰ/i
uʰ	!uʰ/u

This strategy deletes the information. The grammar mentions that this phenomenon is optional (pp. 41). It appears, however, often throughout the dataset.

On the other hand, tanscribing it as iʰtʃ i ʰtʃ does not quite reflect the insertion of /h/ after vowels. Below, I copy some of the CLTS errors I get:

ID	LANGUAGE	CONCEPT	FORM	SEGMENTS
Urarina-102_near-1	Urarina	102_near	iʰtʃũṹ	i <<ʰ>> tʃ u ∼ !ṹ/u ∼
Urarina-106_nose-1	Urarina	106_nose	aʰs̪í	a <<ʰ>> s !í/I
Urarina-112_toplay-1	Urarina	112_toplay	n̪ẽʰkuat̪ihján̪ãã	n e ∼ <<ʰ>> k u a t i h j !á/a n a ∼ a ∼

@LinguList or @xrotwang, how can we better represent this aspiration?

[LinguList]

Is there a problem in representing aspiration on vowels as "breathy"?

[LinguList]

Check here. This is allowed, just not the superscript h.

[FredericBlum]

@MuffinLinwist Have you adopted this solution for Urarina? Would be nice to have this solved for the NP-release. You can then just close this issue

[MuffinLinwist]

Yes, thanks @LinguList for the response. I'm closing the issue now.