Metathesis in Language 2.0

Eggon

Language Family
Niger-Congo
Subgroup
Area

Summary

Underlying /egoN/ is realized in Eggon as [eogoĢƒ].


Type(s) of metathesis

Type Status Optionality Position Location
a. CV Both/unknown Obligatory Adjacent Root-internal

Case types and qualities

Examples

See summary.


Conditions

No conditions could be found

Motivations

Vowel-to-vowel coarticulation is proposed to be the cause of this metathesis by Blevins and Garrett (1998).


Symbols

Comments

Only one mentioning by Ian Maddieson (p.c.).

Bibliography

Blevins, Juliette, and Andrew Garrett. 1998. The origins of consonant-vowel metathesis. Language 74.3 (September): 508–556. doi:10.2307/417792