Phonetic and phonological considerations on the moraic status of pre-NC vowels in Bemba
The pre-NC vowel in many Bantu languages is generally understood to be long. In Bemba, where there is also a vowel length contrast, this raises the question whether the pre-NC vowel is phonetically as long as lexical long vowels and how phonologised this length might be. In contrast to lexically lon...
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| Language: | Afrikaans |
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Stellenbosch University
2021-08-01
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| Series: | Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus |
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| Online Access: | https://spilplus.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/899 |