The phonetics of NCh in Tumbuka and its implications for diachronic change
The phonetic motivation for the synchronic and diachronic development of post-nasal voicing (*NT > ND) is well understood. Less well understood is the phonetic motivation for other common synchronic and diachronic developments from *NT, widely attested in Bantu languages, such as aspiration of th...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2018-09-01
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Series: | Papers in Historical Phonology |
Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/2825 |