Marked Geminates as Evidence of Sonorants in Sylheti Bangla: An Optimality Account

Marked Geminates as Evidence of Sonorants in Sylheti Bangla: An Optimality Account

This paper analyzes the universal concept that sonorants are marked geminates in the gemination process of Sylheti Bangla (henceforth SHB). Evidence from SHB suggests that when SHB speakers confront borrowed words with sonorant initial or obstruent initial heterosyllabic clusters, it is invariably t...

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Main Author: Arpita Goswami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2021-01-01
Series:Acta Linguistica Asiatica
Subjects:
gemination
sonorant
obstruent
constraints
optimality theory
Online Access:http://revije.mitja.kom/ala/article/view/9520

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