The productivity of ‘unnatural’ labial palatalization in Xhosa
Xhosa (Bantu, South Africa) has a pattern of labial palatalization. When the passive suffix /-w-/ is added to a stem ending in a labial, the labial becomes palatal (uku-lum-a → uku-luɲ-w-a). Two main types of analysis have been proposed for this alternation: (i) the ‘phonological analysis’, which...
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2016-03-01
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| Series: | Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/3738 |