Dschang Syllable Structure (1997)
| Venue: | University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Science |
| Citations: | 4 - 4 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Bird97dschangsyllable,
author = {Steven Bird},
title = {Dschang Syllable Structure},
booktitle = {University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Science},
year = {1997},
pages = {447--476},
publisher = {Oxford University Press}
}
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Abstract
this article will be to explain some of the alternations and distributional asymmetries in terms of syllable structure. The only consonant clusters which occur have the form (N)C(G)(h) where N is a homorganic nasal and G is a glide, or have the form (N)OL, where O is an obstruent and L is a liquid, as is characteristic of Niger-Congo languages in general (Maddieson 1981:89). Some complex articulations have not been entered into (3) since they are treated as sequences. The trill r only occurs in loanwords, while the flap D
