Stabilising determinants in the transmission of phonotactic systems: Diachrony and acquisition of coda clusters in Dutch and Afrikaans

The phonotactic system of Afrikaans underwent multiple changes in its diachronic development. While some consonant clusters got lost, others still surface in contemporary Afrikaans. In this paper, we investigate to what extent articulatory difference between the segments of a cluster contribute to i...

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Main Authors: Baumann, Andreas, Wissing, Daan
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Stellenbosch University 2018-11-01
Series:Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus
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Online Access:http://spilplus.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/780