Harmony and disharmony in Mbat (Jarawan Bantu) verbs

This paper is the first to describe aspects of the vocalic phonology of Mbat, a Jarawan Bantu language. Mbat exhibits a series of vowel-consonant interactions in its verbs that sometimes yield height harmony between a stem and suffixal vowel. Via this stem-controlled phenomenon, high vowels (i, u, ɪ...

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Published in:	Linguistique et Langues Africaines
Main Author:	Christopher R. Green
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	LLACAN (Langage, Langues et Culture d'Afrique, UMR 8135 du CNRS/Inalco/EPHE) 2020-12-01
Subjects:	feature geometry Jarawan Bantu vowel features vowel harmony
Online Access:	https://journals.openedition.org/lla/289

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