The morphology and phonology of metathesis in Amarasi

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ID4937752
AuthorsOwen Edwards (0000-0003-2209-0652, Leiden University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume28
Issue1
Pages25-69
Publication date2018-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMorphology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1871-5621 • E-ISSN: 1871-5656
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11525-017-9314-y
OpenAlexW2770090922
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

I describe and analyse data from Amarasi, a language with morphological \nconsonant-vowel metathesis. Depending on the phonotactic structure of \nthe stem to which it applies, metathesis is associated with a number of \nother phonological processes including: vowel deletion, consonant \ndeletion and two kinds of vowel assimilation. By proposing that Amarasi \nhas an obligatory CVCVC foot in which C-slots can be empty all these \nphonological processes can be derived from a single process of \nmetathesis and one associated morphemically conditioned process. I \nconsider analyses other than the rule-based one adopted in this paper \nand show that they cannot account for all the data in a consistent, \nplausible way

Consonant · Linguistics · Phonological rule · Phonology · Phonotactics · Speech recognition · Vowel · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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