Cyclic syllabification in Mongolian
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Summary, in English
Mongolian is a language with a rich suffix-based morphology. Underlying forms can contain long consonant strings into which schwa vowels must be epenthesized in order to create well-formed syllables. Syllabification (including epenthesis) is governed by universal principles (the sonority law, maximality, and directionality) and a few language specific rules. Syllabification is cyclic in relation to the morphology, as is shown directly by minimal pairs having the same underlying segments but different syllabifications due to different morphological structure.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
1995
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
755-766
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
Volym
13
Issue
4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- General Language Studies and Linguistics
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0167-806X