Resumen

RUEDA CHAVES, John E.. The phonological characterization of the Mixtec language group: 70 years of segmental descriptions. Cuad. Lingüíst. Col. Méx. [online]. 2021, vol.8, e199.  Epub 11-Jun-2021. ISSN 2007-736X.  https://doi.org/10.24201/clecm.v8i0.199.

This paper reviews the descriptions of twenty-five varieties of Mixtec and takes into account 70 years of research on grammars of different Mixtec languages (since Pike introduced the descriptive tradition in 1944). The text aims to address the phonological complexity of the subgroup languages, based on the review of their phonological inventories, and the modeling of their phonological processes from the Autosegmental phonology by Clements & Hume (1995). Thus, it is possible to see general and specific phonic properties, as well as patterns among the different Mixtec varieties from the involvement of nodes in geometry.

Palabras llave : subgroup; segmental level; varieties; couplet; processes.