Glide Formation in Kinande Does Not Neutralize an Underlying [ATR] Contrast
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Unlike most other modern Bantu languages, Kinande has faithfully preserved the Proto-Bantu contrast between [-ATR] and [+ATR] high vowels (Hyman, 2002). As a result, while other Bantu languages typically have only two contrastive high vowels (i.e. high back and high front), Kinande has four: [-ATR] [i u] and [+ATR] i u ]. 1 These four high vowels, together with mid [e o] and low [a], are laid out in a vowel chart in (1) below. The fact that they are contrastive is demonstrated in (2): as shown, each of these vowels may appear as the initial vowel of an imperative verb. 2
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