Unexpected Final Vowel Retention in Malakula
Almost all of the thirty or so languages of Malakula in Central Vanuatu show a rule deleting word-final Proto-Oceanic vowels, suggesting that wholesale final vowel deletion might be reconstructible to Proto-Malakula. Two sets of languages, however, show vowel deletion only in certain phonological co...
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De Gruyter
2014-09-01
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| Series: | Open Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opli.2014.1.issue-1/opli-2014-0001/opli-2014-0001.xml?format=INT |