On the pre-nasalized consonants of Cape Verdean Creole

The status of pre-nasalized consonants of basilectal Cape Verdean Creole (the Santiago variety) is a matter of some debate in the literature, between proponents of bisegmental analyses and of a monosegmental one. This paper critically reviews bisegmental analyses and adduces synchronic and diachroni...

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Main Author: Andrei A. Avram
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2009-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/on_the_pre-nasalized_consonants_of_cape_verdean_creole