The natural history of Meinhof's law in Bantu
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Abstract
The paper presents a historical reconstruction of Meinhof's Law in terms of two functionally distinct stages of development. It is argued that in the first stage, the Law developed as a phonetic process involving assimilation internal to a voiced, prenasalized stop. This assimilation was restricted to environments in which a second prenasalized occurred in the succeeding syllable; however, this part of the environment functioned as a catalyst, and not an active cause of the change. In the proposed second stage of development of Meinhof's Law, the environment of the Law generalized from following prenasalized segment to any following nasal segment. It is argued that this development was a consequence of a historical restructuring involved in the shift from a phonetic process to a morphophonemic rule.
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| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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