Squibs: Some Remarks on Stress, Syncope, and Gemination in Mussau  

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Blust, Robert A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Oceanic Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 40 no. 1 (Jun. 2001), page 143-150.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/OCL/40 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Contrary to theoretical expectation, Mussau, a language spoken in the St. Matthias archipelago in northwest Melanesia, has developed some geminate consonants through the loss of stressed vowels. It is argued that other considerations have overridden considerations of stress in geminate formation, not only in Mussau, but in many other Oceanic languages. Specifically, vowels tend to delete between identical consonants in partial reduplications, a tendency that accords closely with Odden's (1988) arguments 1,lgainst the Obligatory Contour Principle, particularly as it applies to antigemination.

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