Word-Initial Geminates in Sardinian
It is reported to be uncommon for a language to display phonological contrasts between simplex and geminate obstruents: Italian and Japanese are among the few that do (Tsujimura 2007; Davis 2011). It is even less common for languages to display a phonological contrast of this kind in word-initial po...
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Firenze University Press
2015-08-01
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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/1857 |