Rara #102

Legacy number: 102

 Number  102
 Phenomenon  intervocalic consonant clusters of decreasing sonority in toto assigned to onsets of second syllables
 Found in  Malayalam (Dravidian)
 Domain  phonology — syllable structure
 Type  nonesuch
 Keywords  onset
 Source  Mohanan, K. P. (1986). The Theory of Lexical Phonology. Dordrecht: Reidel.
Mohanan, T. (1989). Syllable structure in Malayalam. Linguistic Inquiry 20: 589-625.
 Violates  not yet in UA: Sonority Increase

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Discussion
Notes
thus, e.g., ca.mpa, b?a.kt1i rather than cam.pa, b?ak.t1i
Comment
Frans Plank · 21 Sep 2006
thus, e.g., ca.mpa, bÓa.ktli rather than cam.pa, bÓak.tli