Optimality theory and historical phonology: an example from nasal harmony in mundurukú
This paper offers an account of diachronic changes in nasal harmony in Mundurukú, a Tupian language from Brazil. It attempts to show that the Optimality Theory provides new ways of accounting for sound change, other than constraint re-ranking. A comparison of Mundurukú and Kuruaya’s modern systems p...
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Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
2013-01-01
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| Schriftenreihe: | Alfa: Revista de Lingüística |
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| Online-Zugang: | http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/view/4664/4548 |
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