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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Köppe, R
Buchreihe	:	East African Languages and Dialects (Bd. 4)
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	06. 06. 1995
Seiten	:	87
Einband	:	Kartoniert
Höhe	:	240 mm
Breite	:	160 mm
Gewicht	:	260 g
ISBN	:	9783927620384
Sprache	:	Englisch
Illustrationen	:	zahlreiche Tabellen und Übersichten

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Produktinformation

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This study provides an alternative hypothesis to Swahili noun morphophonemics by introducing the concept of relative chronology. Thus, it shows that the seemingly irregular outputs of morpheme contacts in Swahili follow two morphophonemic rules separated in time; one which is relevant to Swahili as a stressless language and the other to stress language. Accordingly, it demonstrates that stress was introduced in Swahili in a relatively recent period. With regards to vowel length, this study challenges arguments presenting this feature as phonemically distinctive in Swahili. Hence, it argues that the relative vowel length observed in Swahili is dependent on the presence of stress or on morphemic contacts between vowels.

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