Title: High-toned Mora Insertion BetweenOnsetless Morphemes in Cilungu
Abstract: Cilungu is a Bantu language spoken in parts of the Northern Province of Zambia and southern Tanzania. All the data in this paper were elicited by the author from Alfred & Godwill Sikazwe (brothers). In this paper I will provide a description of a phonological process, which to the best of my knowledge, is not attested elsewhere in Bantu. This process inserts a H-toned mora at the beginning of vowel-initial verb stems when they are immediately preceded by an onsetless Subject Marker. I will show that in this particular context the language does not employ any of the otherwise productive processes which resolve vowel hiatus —a sequence of successive vowels. I then offer suggestions on what might motivate this m The morphological structure of the finite verb (similar to that of many other Bantu languages) is given below.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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