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Kimatuumbi phrasal phonology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2020

David Odden
David Odden*
Affiliation:
Ohio State University
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Kimatuumbi, a Bantu language of Tanzania, has a number of phonological rules applying between words which are sensitive to syntactic structure. Kimatuumbi thus presents a test for theories of the interaction between syntactic structure and phonology. I argue that phonological rules in Kimatuumbi make direct reference to labelled surface syntactic bracketing, contrary to the claims of boundary theories such as Chomsky & Halle (1968) and Selkirk (1974), as well as the prosodic theories of Selkirk (1980), Nespor & Vogel (1982) and Hayes (1984).

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Research Article
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Phonology , Volume 4 , May 1987 , pp. 13 - 36
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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Footnotes

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This paper represents an abbreviation of a larger work in progress on Kimatuumbi phonology. Data on Kimatuumbi were collected during 1978–81 from Emmanuel Manday, whom I thank for both insights and data. Thanks are also due to Guy Garden, Wayne Cowart, Bruce Hayes, Larry Hyman and Mary Odden for helpful comments.

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