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The syllable in Kuki-Chin by Samson Lotven; Kelly Berkson; James C. Wamsley; Jillian Danaher; Kenneth Van Bik; Stuart Davis is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is The syllable in Kuki-Chin about?
## Abstract The Kuki-Chin group of the Tibeto-Burman language family consists of upwards of 50 languages spoken mainly in western Myanmar, predominantly in Chin State and in neighboring areas of India and Bangladesh (Simons & Fennig (eds.). 2019. __Ethnologue: Languages of the world__, 21st edn. Dallas Texas: SIL International. Online version. http://www.ethnologue.com/). In the many daughter languages of Proto–Kuki-Chin, syllable structure simplification has yielded a synchronic situation in which individual languages are spread along a cline ranging from more conservative languages, some with complex onsets and vowel length distinctions, to more innovative languages, some with no coda consonants at all. The distribution and phonetic realization of these features vary across the Kuki-Chin group, raising a number of relevant questions about the underlying phonological representations of the Kuki-Chin syllable. This paper surveys representative structures from a variety of Kuki-Chin languages in order to highlight issues in syllable structure across these little-studied languages. In doing so, we aim to both unify observations on Kuki-Chin phonology related to the syllable, and to p
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- Author
- Samson Lotven; Kelly Berkson; James C. Wamsley; Jillian Danaher; Kenneth Van Bik; Stuart Davis
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)