Retroflex Consonant Harmony in South Asia

This dissertation explores the nature and extent of retroflex consonant harmony in South Asia. Using statistics calculated over lexical databases from a broad sample of languages, the study demonstrates that retroflex consonant harmony is an areal trait affecting most languages in the northern half...

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Main Author: Arsenault, Paul Edmond
Other Authors: Rice, Keren
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/33911