What is it about?
Languages tend to preserve manner of articulation of consonants in specific contexts, including when they occur in clusters. This paper explains the kind of structure these clusters display.
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A typological study of consonant clusters. Diachronic and synchronic implications on the manifestation of closure (manner of articulation) in consonants. A comparative study on a unrelated languages (Gadsup New Guinea, Berber North Africa, Soninke West Africa).
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An extensive study of consonant clusters from a typological perspective.
Dr Mohamed Lahrouchi
CNRS - UMR SFL
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This page is a summary of: The typology of the distribution of Edge: the propensity for bipositionality, Papers in Historical Phonology, November 2016, Edinburgh University Library,
DOI: 10.2218/pihph.1.2016.1696.
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