Two kinds of moraic nasal in Ciyao

A problematic issue in a number of Bantu languages concerns the phonological analysis of "preconsonantal nasality", i.e., the question of whether NC entities should be analyzed as single prenasalized consonants or as sequences of nasal + (homorganic) consonant. In this paper, the authors e...

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Autores principales: Larry M. Hyman, Armindo S.A. Ngunga
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:8dc3f0ac866a48aea64c2d0aa26baf4e2021-11-19T03:53:54ZTwo kinds of moraic nasal in Ciyao10.32473/sal.v26i2.1073910039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/8dc3f0ac866a48aea64c2d0aa26baf4e1997-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107391https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XA problematic issue in a number of Bantu languages concerns the phonological analysis of "preconsonantal nasality", i.e., the question of whether NC entities should be analyzed as single prenasalized consonants or as sequences of nasal + (homorganic) consonant. In this paper, the authors examine two kinds of moraic nasal---one syllabic, one not-in Ciyao, a Bantu language spoken in East Africa. They further demonstrate that there is a third type of preconsonantal nasality in Ciyao which is neither moraic nor syllabic.Larry M. HymanArmindo S.A. NgungaLibraryPress@UFarticleprenasal consonantsBantuhomorganicCiyaoPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 26, Iss 2 (1997)
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collection DOAJ
language EN
FR
topic prenasal consonants
Bantu
homorganic
Ciyao
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
spellingShingle prenasal consonants
Bantu
homorganic
Ciyao
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Larry M. Hyman
Armindo S.A. Ngunga
Two kinds of moraic nasal in Ciyao
description A problematic issue in a number of Bantu languages concerns the phonological analysis of "preconsonantal nasality", i.e., the question of whether NC entities should be analyzed as single prenasalized consonants or as sequences of nasal + (homorganic) consonant. In this paper, the authors examine two kinds of moraic nasal---one syllabic, one not-in Ciyao, a Bantu language spoken in East Africa. They further demonstrate that there is a third type of preconsonantal nasality in Ciyao which is neither moraic nor syllabic.
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author Larry M. Hyman
Armindo S.A. Ngunga
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Armindo S.A. Ngunga
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title Two kinds of moraic nasal in Ciyao
title_short Two kinds of moraic nasal in Ciyao
title_full Two kinds of moraic nasal in Ciyao
title_fullStr Two kinds of moraic nasal in Ciyao
title_full_unstemmed Two kinds of moraic nasal in Ciyao
title_sort two kinds of moraic nasal in ciyao
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