Resolving hiatus in (isi)Ndebele: An optimality theoretic account
Vowel hiatus is a dispreferred phenomenon in many languages. When vowel sequences arise through morphophonological concatenations in (isi)Ndebele, hiatus may be resolved in one of three processes: (i) one of the two vowels undergoes elision; (ii) one of the vowels (mostly the first vowel in the sequ...
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Elsevier
2015-01-01
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215039015300126 |