nonesuch 102: intervocalic consonant clusters of decreasing sonority in toto assigned to onsets of second syllables
- Where found
- Malayalam (Dravidian)
- Domain
- phonology
- Subdomain
- syllable structure
- Keywords
- onset
- Type
- nonesuch
- Universals violated
- not yet in UA: Sonority Increase
- Source
- Mohanan, K. P. (1986). The Theory of Lexical Phonology. Dordrecht: Reidel.
Mohanan, T. (1989). Syllable structure in Malayalam. Linguistic Inquiry 20: 589-625.
thus, e.g., ca.mpa, bÓa.ktli rather than cam.pa, bÓak.tli