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Documenting implosive variation in Atchan and Nghlwa

Alexandra Pfiffner - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Implosives are a type of consonant found in 13% of the world’s languages (Maddieson, 1984) and are particularly widespread throughout the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. However, they remain extremely understudied in phonetics. The goal of this project is to work through fieldwork recordings from Summer 2024 with speakers of...

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