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‘Prenasalised consonants’ and syllable timing: evidence from Runyambo and Luganda

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natural language processing

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paper
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Kat
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Cam
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An interesting feature of many Bantu languages is the presence of what have been called ‘prenasalised consonants’-these are typically sounds that might be interpreted as a sequence of nasal + stop, but which behave in many respects like single segments:

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GandaNyambo

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