Paradigm generation and Northern Sámi stems
Abstract Northern Sámi, a Finno-Ugric language spoken mainly in Northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland, has a system of consonant gradation which affects consonants at the center of a prosodic foot: the coda of the stressed syllable and the onset of the following syllable (stress is word-initial). Con...
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Oxford University PressOxford
2008
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199219254.003.0004 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52225073/isbn-9780199219254-book-part-4.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract Northern Sámi, a Finno-Ugric language spoken mainly in Northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland, has a system of consonant gradation which affects consonants at the center of a prosodic foot: the coda of the stressed syllable and the onset of the following syllable (stress is word-initial). Consonant gradation is illustrated in (4.1) for two typical nouns (angle brackets signal that the example is given in the standard orthography; unreferenced examples are generally from Nickel 1990). |
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