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SIL Electronic Working Papers 2006-001
Discontinuous nasal spread in Yaminahua
| Author |
Loos, Eugene E.
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| Abstract | Rachel Walker's (1998) analysis of the universal characteristics of nasal spread provided a unified account of nasal spread that enabled the formulation of predictable spread patterns. The present analysis presents a new type of data not included in Walker's account: Yaminahua (Panoan) diverges significantly from hitherto identified patterns of nasal spread by allowing nasalization to skip over intervening nasalizable segments. By positing nasal autosegments this paper provides a rationale for the Yaminahua exceptions to Walker's universal pattern. |
| Discontinuous nasal spread in Yaminahua | |
| Published | 2006 |
| Language |
Yaminahua [yaa] |
| Country |
Peru |
| Subjects |
Nasalization Phonological change |
| Keywords | nasalization; Panoan language group; Peru; Yaminahua; nasal spread; Nasalization; Phonological change |