ATR harmony in Turkana

This paper analyzes the [ATR] harmony system of Turkana (Eastern Nilotic). The principal claim made in this paper is that Turkana provides evidence for an underlying ternary contrast in the feature [ATR]. This claim is based on the observation that some suffixes alternate in [ATR] in agreement with...

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Main Author: Manuela Noske
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LibraryPress@UF 1996-06-01
Series:Studies in African Linguistics
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Online Access:https://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107404