Branching onsets and segment licensing: the lack of debuccalization or deletion of the <em>muta cum liquida</em> clusters in central Sardinian dialects
Some central Sardinian dialects undergo debuccalization of /f/ and /k/. The clusters /fr/ and /kr/, on the other hand, fail to undergo debuccalization or deletion (Wagner 1984 [1941]; Contini 1987; Molinu 1997). The purpose of this article is to attempt to answer the following questions: why does d...
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Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2017-09-01
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Series: | Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali |
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Online Access: | https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-qulso/article/view/1892 |