Word-initial rhotic avoidance: a typological survey

This paper addresses the issue of word-initial rhotic avoidance (WIRA) from a typological point of view. Its first aim is to document WIRA cross-linguistically, based on the examination of a sample of 200 languages designed by the WALS (Dryer and Haspelmath 2013). This set of 200 languages has been...

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Main Author: Laurence Labrune
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2021-01-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/922