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Lee Bickmore
88-95 (complete pdf)
Cilungu, a Bantu language spoken in parts of Zambia and Tanzania, exhibits a cross-linguistically unusual phonological process by which a H-toned mora is inserted before a vowel-initial verb stem when it is immediately preceded by an onsetless Subject Marker. I show that in this particular context the language does not employ any of the otherwise productive processes which resolve vowel hiatus, viz. vowel deletion and gliding. I suggest the insertion of a H-toned mora in this one context is motivated at least in part by a principle demanding that a morpheme have some segmental realization.
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Selected Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference on African Linguistics
edited by Doris L. Payne and Jaime Peña
Table of contents
ISBN 978-1-57473-420-1 library binding
v + 203 pages
publication date: 2007
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA