Predicting distributional restrictions on prenasalized stops

Previous studies on prenasalized stops (NCs) focus mainly on issues of derivation and classification, but little is known about their distributional properties. The current study fills this gap. I present results of a survey documenting positional restrictions on NCs, and show that there are predict...

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Main Author: Stanton, Juliet (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands, 2017-02-16T20:25:39Z.
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