Prestopped bilabial trills in Sangtam

• Main Author: Coupe, Alexander R.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: phonology; Tibeto-Burman; Sangtam; static palatography; field linguistics; linguistic typology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82882; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40567; https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2015/proceedings.html
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper discusses the phonetic and phonological features of a typologically rare prestopped bilabial trill and some associated evolving sound changes in the phonology of Sangtam, a Tibeto-Burman language of central Nagaland, north-east India. Prestopped bilabial trills were encountered in two doz...