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Syllables and redundancy rules in generative phonology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Gillian Brown
Gillian Brown
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Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
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This paper is concerned with two topics, the status of the syllable and the scope of redundancy rules, in generative phonology. We begin the discussion by examining material from Lugisu, a Bantu language of eastern Uganda, which will be used as the main language of exemplification. The simple noun in Lugisu is formed by the sequence: determiner, classifier, stem. The determiner is deleted before consonant-initial stems in some syntactic environments (and in isolation; examples 1 and 3, for example, show the sequence: classifier, stem). The first examples are from Meinhof's noun class 3 (Meinhof, 1932) where the determiner is /gu/ 3 and the classifier /mu/.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 1970 , pp. 1 - 17
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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