Database
Nyungar (Nyunga)
(Southwest Australia; Australian, Nyungar)
Summary:
a. The order of CV in some forms in the Northern dialect is the reverse of that in the Southern dialect.
Summary:
a. The order of CV in some forms in the Northern dialect is the reverse of that in the Southern dialect.
Examples:
a. Comparing Northern and Southern dialect, CV metathesis is attested.
a. Comparing Northern and Southern dialect, CV metathesis is attested.
| Northern | Southern | |
|---|---|---|
| janka | janak | 'devil' |
| nurrku | nurruk | 'egg' |
Conditions:
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Motivation:
a. Dench (1990): Nyungar words which look like having undergone a metathesis process are the result of two phonological processes, the general loss of final vowels and an epenthetic insertion resyllabifying a non-permissable syllable coda.
a. Dench (1990): Nyungar words which look like having undergone a metathesis process are the result of two phonological processes, the general loss of final vowels and an epenthetic insertion resyllabifying a non-permissable syllable coda.
Related Information:
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Symbols:
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Last Updated: 6/18/2007
No information currently available.
Last Updated: 6/18/2007
References:
- Dench, Alan. 1990. An Autosegmental Account of Nyungar Metathesis. ms. UWA.
- Hume, Elizabeth. 1995. Beyond Linear Order: Prosodic Constraints and C/V Metathesis. Proceedings of FLSM6. Indiana Linguistics Club.
