Does Gokana really have no syllables? Or: what's so great about being universal?
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Does Gokana Really Have No Syllables? (Or: What’s So Great About Being Universal?)
Over 25 years ago, Hyman (1983, 1985) made the claim that Gokana, an Ogoni (Niger-Congo) language of Nigeria, does not organise its consonants and vowels into syllables. This was a radical and in principle non-welcome position, given the centrality of the syllable in almost all phonological work at the time. Still, as Richard Hayward pointed out many years later, the extensive treatment of Goka...
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عنوان ژورنال: Phonology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0952-6757,1469-8188
DOI: 10.1017/s0952675711000030