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Nasal Harmony in Aguaruna.
Moon, Gui-Sun – 1987
A discussion of the nasal harmony of Aguaruna, a language of the Jivaroan family in South America, approaches the subject from the viewpoint of generative phonology. This theory of phonology proposes an underlying nasal consonant, later deleted, that accounts for vowel nasalization. Complex rules that suppose a complex system of vowel and…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Diachronic Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Generative Phonology