Abstract This paper addresses one of the open issues in reconstruction Proto-Tupi-Guarani (PTG) segmental phonology: The status *k -*kʲ opposition. We argue that contrast is artifactual and presumed evidence favor PTG *kʲ can be considered as secondary developments Kayabí, Guarayu, Kagwahiva, Tenetehára, Kamayurá, Ka’apor. establish additional facts regarding structure historical phonology TG l...

in order to simplify the pronunciation ofthe adult's words,children use phonological processes inthe initial years oftheir speech growth.the present study aims at considering phonological processes ina group oftwo tofour-year old farsi speaking children.the results indicate that itisnot possible to correctly and precisely account forthe occurrences ofsuch processes in children’s pronunciat...

The traditional phoneme analysis of the Danish consonant inventory links onset and coda consonants on basis historical alternations morphologically conditioned within a small subset lexicon. This proposes system resulting in large number neutralizations that cannot be dissolved, which allophones same lack shared phonetic content. We argue proposed by is impossible to learn from language input, ...