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‘Prenasalised consonants’ and syllable timing: evidence from Runyambo and Luganda*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2009

Kathleen Hubbard
Kathleen Hubbard
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University of CaliforniaSan Diego
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An interesting feature of many Bantu languages is the presence of what have been called ‘prenasalised consonants’-these are typically sounds that might be interpreted as a sequence of nasal + stop, but which behave in many respects like single segments:

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Phonology , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , August 1995 , pp. 235 - 256
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