Historical transfer of nasality between consonantal onset and vowel from C to v or from v to C?

Diachronica

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 201-230

  Michaud, Alexis ^a   Jacques, Guillaume ^b   Rankin, Robert L ^c  

^a LACITO CNRS   (France)

^b ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Consonant clusters; Modeling of sound change; Nasal onsets; Nasal vowels; Nasalization; Panchronic phonology; Transphonologization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862126386     PISSN: 01764225     EISSN: 15699714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/dia.29.2.04mic     Document Type: Review

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