Nasal place assimilation and the perceptibility of place contrasts

Typological studies of place assimilation show that nasal consonants are more likely to assimilate in place than oral stops (Cho, 1990; Jun, 1995, 2004; Mohanan, 1993). Jun (1995, 2004) argues that this typological asymmetry derives from a difference in the perceptibility of the place contrasts in n...

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Main Authors: Kawahara Shigeto, Garvey Kelly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2014-10-01
Series:Open Linguistics
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Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opli.2014.1.issue-1/opli-2014-0002/opli-2014-0002.xml?format=INT