Iconicity as the motivation for morphophonological metathesis and truncation in Nigerian Pidgin
We present evidence for iconicity as the motivation for two patterns of morphophonological alternation in Nigerian Pidgin, also known as Naijá. To express an ‘unconventional positive’ in all varieties of Naijá, some nouns with the tone melodies H-L and L-H surface with the tone melodies L-H and H-L,...
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De Gruyter
2024-06-01
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| Reeks: | Open Linguistics |
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| Online toegang: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2024-0013 |
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