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Does Gokana really have syllables? A postscript

Domaine:

natural language processing
Créateur:
Lar
Éditeur:
Cam
Hôte:
After years of searching for evidence for the syllable in Gokana, I presented a possible argument in Hyman (2011) that the prosodic stem consists at most of two bimoraic syllables. In this note I show that there is an alternative account not involving syllables. Either way, Gokana makes very little reference to syllable structure, if at all.