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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Main Authors: Vratsanos, Alyssa, Kadenge, Maxwell
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Stellenbosch University 2017-12-01
Series:Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus
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Online Access:https://spilplus.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/711