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Universal 936:

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Universal 936:

Original
Secondary nasal consonants are, apart from borrowing and analogical formations, always the result of diachronic developments from clusters.
Standardized
Secondary nasal consonants are, apart from borrowing and analogical formations, always the result of diachronic developments from clusters.
Keywords
consonant, nasal
Domain
phonology
Type
target < source
Status
diachronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
languages in Ferguson 1963
Source
Ferguson 1963: 58 (IX)
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    A Secondary nasal consonant (SNC) is a nasal consonant phoneme the most characteristic phoneme of which is not a simple voiced nasal (Ferguson 1963: 56-7).

    1. May 2020

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