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The Analysis of Aspiration in Sanskrit Phonology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Eva I. Ejerhed
Eva I. Ejerhed
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Department of Linguistics, University of Umeå, S-901 87 Umeå,. Sweden.
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Abstract

The paper is devoted to the thesis that all Sanskrit aspirates (voiceless as well: as voiced) should be represented as clusters of a consonantal segment /C/ plus a segment /h/, the latter being [-consonantal, -vocalic], and not as single consonantal segments with the feature [+aspirate], which is the usual analysis. The arguments for the correctness of this thesis are based on formal considerations, i.e. on the fact that a cluster analysis yields a simpler formul ation of a 1arge number of different phonological processes in the language. The paper compares the cluster analysis of aspirates with a non-cluster analysis with respect to ten different rules.

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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , December 1981 , pp. 139 - 159
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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