| Examples: |
 |
| aigmeroga
~ |
aimgeroga |
'dung heap' |
| ormi-
~ |
omri- |
'come down' |
| pkai-
~ |
kpai- |
'grow, nurture, develop' |
The form on the left is more common. |
| Conditions: |
|
Editor's notes:
All of the examples provided in Haiman (1980) involve a labial consonant,
i.e. [v, m, b, p], next to a non-homorganic consonant.
All consonants involved are immediately adjacent to one another. |
| Motivation: |
|
Editor's notes: It is interesting to note that when one of two metathesizing
consonants is a sonorant and the other is an obstruent, the order obstruent
+ sonorant is more common. In all of the examples provided by Haiman, of
which a subset appear above, the obstruent/sonorant sequence occurs between
vowels. Sequences of two sonorants or two obstruents can appear intervocalically
or at the beginning of a word. In cases in which both consonants share
the same manner of articulation, the order in which the consonants appear
doesn't, at this point, seem predictable. |
| Related
information: |
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No information currently available. |
| Comments: |
|
Last updated: 3/18/2002 |
| References: |
|
Haiman, John. 1980. HUA: A Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of
New Guinea. Studies in Language Companion Series. Vol. 5. Amsterdam/John
Benjamins B.V.
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