Hiatus resolution in Xitsonga
Vowel hiatus is dispreferred in many languages of the world. Xitsonga, an understudied cross-border southern Bantu language spoken in South Africa, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, employs a set of four hiatus resolution strategies: glide formation, secondary articulation, elision and coalescence...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | Afrikaans |
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Stellenbosch University
2017-12-01
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Series: | Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus |
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Online Access: | https://spilplus.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/711 |