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Cyclic syllabification in Mongolian

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Summary, in English

Mongolian is a language with a rich suffix-based morphology. Underlying forms can contain long consonant strings into which schwa vowels must be epenthesized in order to create well-formed syllables. Syllabification (including epenthesis) is governed by universal principles (the sonority law, maximality, and directionality) and a few language specific rules. Syllabification is cyclic in relation to the morphology, as is shown directly by minimal pairs having the same underlying segments but different syllabifications due to different morphological structure.

Publishing year

1995

Language

English

Pages

755-766

Publication/Series

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory

Volume

13

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0167-806X