title: Dschang syllable structure
creator: Bird, Steven
subject: Morphology
subject: Phonology
description: The syllable structure of Dschang is interesting for a variety of reasons. Most notable is the aspiration which can appear on most consonant types, including voiced stops. I shall argue that aspiration is best viewed as moraic, contributing to the weight of a syllable. An understanding of the syllable structure also gives valuable insights into the phonemic inventory and the distributional asymmetries, and helps to explain some curious morphophonemic vowel alternations in the imperative construction.  
publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
contributor: van der Hulst, Harry
contributor: Ritter, Nancy
date: 1999
type: Book Chapter
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/2183/3/syllable.pdf
identifier:   Bird, Steven  (1999) Dschang syllable structure.  [Book Chapter]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/2183/