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Moraic mismatches in Bantu*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2008

Larry M. Hyman
Larry M. Hyman
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University of California, Berkeley
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Research in moraic phonology has generally assumed that a single representation is sufficient to account for all phonological rules dependent on moraic structure (Hock 1984; Hyman 1984, 1985; McCarthy & Prince 1986; Zec 1988; Hayes 1989). Thus, if a CVC syllable has the moraic structure in (1), all phonological rules will treat it as bimoraic. I term this the MORAIC UNIQUENESS HYPOTHESIS: at any given stage of a derivation, there is only one moraic projection.

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Phonology , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , August 1992 , pp. 255 - 265
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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