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Coerced weight and its consequences in Bondu So verbs

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Bondu So (Dogon, Mali) displays [ATR] vowel harmony that interacts with root-final consonants. This study provides evidence from five verb paradigms to show that the quality of a stem suffix, and its absence or presence, is determined by a combination of factors including [ATR], sonorancy, and prosody. Preliminary phonetic results show that, on average, root-final sonorants following [+ATR] vowels are longer than those following [−ATR] vowels. This differs from what is reported for other languages, as these consonants are neither inherently moraic, nor do they receive a mora due to their position alone. This finding suggests that, in Bondu So, [+ATR] licenses sonorant moraicity. We argue that these instances of coerced moraicity explain otherwise unexpected patterns of suffixation among these verb paradigms.

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hal-04596864 , version 1 (31-05-2024)

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Abbie Hantgan-Sonko, Christopher Green, Leonardo Contreras Roa. Coerced weight and its consequences in Bondu So verbs. The Ghanaian linguistics nexus, Language Science Press, pp.213-241, 2024, 978-3-96110-469-7. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.11091838⟩. ⟨hal-04596864⟩
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