Nle?kepmxcín
- Language Family
- Salishan
- Subgroup
- —
- Area
- —
Summary
Immediately pretonic laryngeal-vowel sequences /ʔV/ or /hV/ undergo metathesis if the following stressed syllable begins with an obstruent.
Type(s) of metathesis
| Type | Status | Optionality | Position | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a. CV | Synchronic | Obligatory | Adjacent | Root-internal |
Case types and qualities
-
- CV
-
- C:
- Glottal stop
- C:
- Glottal fricative
- V:
- Any
Examples
/məkʷʔu-t-éʃ/ → [mkʷuʔ.téʃ] 'she wraps it'
/mʔaʕ-újəm̚xʷ/ → [maʔ.ʕújm̚xʷ] 'it grows light'
/tʃ̚ʔo-tʃ̚ʔóz/ → [tʃ̚oʔ.tʃ̚ʔóz] 'it is rather dark'
/tʃeh-ə́me/ → [tʃhém] 'she puts (things) away'
Conditions
No conditions could be found
Motivations
No motivations could be found
Symbols
C̚: unreleased/glottalized consonant.
Comments
Data comes from Thompson et al. (1996:615).
Bibliography
Blevins, Juliette, and Andrew Garrett. 1998. The origins of consonant-vowel metathesis. Language 74.3 (September): 508–556. doi:10.2307/417792