Paradigm generation and Northern Sámi stems

Northern Sámi, a Finno-Ugric language spoken mainly in Northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland, has a system of consonant gradation which affects conso-nants 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...

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Main Author: Peter Svenonius
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Language:English
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.538.7825
http://www.hum.uit.no/a/svenonius/papers/nsparadigms06iids.pdf
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Summary:Northern Sámi, a Finno-Ugric language spoken mainly in Northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland, has a system of consonant gradation which affects conso-nants 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