Lexical strata and vowel (dis)harmony: the Turkish transformation of a Balkan hypocoristic
In this study I explore the phonological behavior of the hypocoristic suffix /-oʃ/-/iʃ/ in Turkish. Such a suffix is common to many of the Balkan languages. Turkish differs in its introduction of the front vowel variant of the suffix, presumably to satisfy the vowel harmony requirements in Turkish f...
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Linguistica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/7214 |