Development of Syllabic Nasals The Case of the Bantu Noun Class Prefixes "Mu-, "Mi-,""Ma-." Working Papers on Language Universals, No. 2 /

Development of Syllabic Nasals [electronic resource] : The Case of the Bantu Noun Class Prefixes "Mu-, "Mi-,""Ma-." Working Papers on Language Universals, No. 2 / Alan Bell.

The reflexes of the proto-Bantu noun class prefixes of the form "mu-,""mi-," and "ma-" are compared in 84 Bantu languages. The hypotheses that syllabic nasals arise preferably from sequences of m + rounded high vowel, rather than m + unrounded high vowel, are tested aga...

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Main Author: Bell, Alan
Corporate Author: Stanford University. Committee on Linguistics
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1970.
Subjects:
African Languages.
Bantu Languages.
Contrastive Linguistics.
Descriptive Linguistics.
Diachronic Linguistics.
Distinctive Features (Language)
Form Classes (Languages)
Language Patterns.
Language Research.
Language Universals.
Nouns.
Phonemes.
Structural Analysis.
Syllables.
Vowels.

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