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Kelly, John – York Papers in Linguistics, 1991
A study of the pronunciation of an adult male Swahili speaker, a native and long-term resident of Mombasa Old Town, supplemented with notes on other adult speakers, suggests a new account of glides and phonological change in this variation of the language. The asymmetrical distribution of the two glide types (palatal and labiovelar) is analyzed…
Descriptors: African Languages, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries
