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- Title
Palauan Historical Phonology: Whence the Intrusive Velar Nasal?
- Authors
Blust, Robert
- Abstract
One of the more striking features in the historical phonology of Palauan is the addition of a velar nasal before word-initial vowels. Because final vowels were unstressed, and almost always disappeared, it is difficult to determine whether a velar nasal would also have been added after final vowels had they been retained. However, a number of loan words, mostly from Spanish and English, show the addition of a velar nasal after word-final vowels. The change in native vocabulary is exceptionless, while that in loan words is irregular. Moreover, the two changes appear to be historically disconnected, yet they suggest a common canonical target that persisted over many generations of speakers.
- Subjects
PHONOLOGY; PHONETICS; PALAUAN language; VOWELS; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Oceanic Linguistics, 2009, Vol 48, Issue 2, p307
- ISSN
0029-8115
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ol.0.0043