The phonology of vocalic height in Kikuria

Vowel height harmony is common in Bantu languages, but the language Kikuria has a particularly rich system of vowel height alternations, which are described in this paper. Included in the height-related phonology of the language are three regressive height harmonies and one progressive harmony. Cert...

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Autores principales:	Chacha Nyaigotti Chacha, David Odden
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1998
Materias:	vowel harmony vowel height Kikuria Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:27f87ff3be7746329caeb51fbad04c0f2021-11-19T03:53:49ZThe phonology of vocalic height in Kikuria10.32473/sal.v27i2.1073820039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/27f87ff3be7746329caeb51fbad04c0f1998-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107382https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XVowel height harmony is common in Bantu languages, but the language Kikuria has a particularly rich system of vowel height alternations, which are described in this paper. Included in the height-related phonology of the language are three regressive height harmonies and one progressive harmony. Certain of these processes are triggered by glides and palatal consonants, while for other processes these consonants are transparent, and stem-initial vowels behave exceptionally for some, but not all, of these processes.Chacha Nyaigotti ChachaDavid OddenLibraryPress@UFarticlevowel harmonyvowel heightKikuriaPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 27, Iss 2 (1998)
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description	Vowel height harmony is common in Bantu languages, but the language Kikuria has a particularly rich system of vowel height alternations, which are described in this paper. Included in the height-related phonology of the language are three regressive height harmonies and one progressive harmony. Certain of these processes are triggered by glides and palatal consonants, while for other processes these consonants are transparent, and stem-initial vowels behave exceptionally for some, but not all, of these processes.
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The phonology of vocalic height in Kikuria

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