Approaching the historical phonology of three highly eroded Sino-Tibetan languages: Naxi, Na and Laze

Diachronica

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 468-498

  Jacques, Guillaume ^a   Michaud, Alexis ^b  

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

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Consonantal conditioning of vowels; Laze; Na; Naxi; Phonological erosion; Sino Tibetan; Syllable structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862140090     PISSN: 01764225     EISSN: 15699714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/dia.28.4.02jac     Document Type: Article

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