Prosodically-conditioned vowel shortening in Chindali

In Chindali [Bantu M21, northern Malawi and southern Tanzania], the augment vowel of noun classes 1 a, Sa, 9 and 10 exhibits allomorphic variation in length. In other noun classes, the vowel of the noun class prefix varies in length before NCinitial stems. The author demonstrates that, in both cases...

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Main Author: Robert Botne
Format: article
Language:EN
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Published: LibraryPress@UF 1998
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/a99b93ced0d54547a3be747eb164e46f
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