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Does Gokana really have syllables? A postscript*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2015

Larry M. Hyman
Larry M. Hyman*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
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E-mail: [email protected].
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Abstract

After years of searching for evidence for the syllable in Gokana, I presented a possible argument in Hyman (2011) that the prosodic stem consists at most of two bimoraic syllables. In this note I show that there is an alternative account not involving syllables. Either way, Gokana makes very little reference to syllable structure, if at all.

Type
Squibs and Replies
Information
Phonology , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , August 2015 , pp. 303 - 306
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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Footnotes

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I would like to thank three anonymous reviewers, the associate editor and the editors for their helpful, if not uncritical, responses to the original submission of this note.

References

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