Arrernte: A language with no syllable onsets

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-25

  Breen, Gavan ^a   Pensalfini, Rob ^b  

^a Institute for Aboriginal Development   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arandic; Complex codas; Onset; Phonological universals; Syllabification

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009587119     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002438999553940     Document Type: Article

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