Washo Onsets and the Revised Sonority Theory

This article presents an argument for the idea that consonants of high sonority are preferred over low-sonority consonants between vowels (Uffmann 2007). The argument is based on a detailed description and analysis of the phonological patterns which ensure that a syllable starts with a consonant in...

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Main Author: Staroverov Peter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2016-11-01
Series:Open Linguistics
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Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opli.2016.2.issue-1/opli-2016-0025/opli-2016-0025.xml?format=INT