Phonology in Truku Seediq

This article is a fieldwork report on phonology in Seediq, with a focus on the Truku dialect, which is mainly spoken in the eastern part of Taiwan. Seediq is a Formosan language belonging to the Atayalic subgroup, which is comprised of three main dialects: Paran, Truku, and Toda. This article provides a study on Truku phonology with a data-oriented approach, including phonemic inventory, phonotactic distribution and restrictions, syllable structure, stress assignment,phonological rules, and morphophonemic alternations.