On the apparent labio-velar nasals of Kam

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Solnit, David B.
• مؤلفون آخرون: University of Michigan
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2024
• الموضوعات: Arts and Humanities
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179177
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

In historical linguistics, certain commonplace sound changes can be presumed to happen in only one direction, usually for readily apparent phonetic reasons. Palatalization of consonants is an obvious example: it is easy to understand why a front vowel or semivowel should pull a non-palatal consonant...