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University of Florida - LIN 3010 Bukusu is Niger-Congo language of the Bantu family, spoken in Kenya

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University of Florida - LIN 3010

Bukusu is Niger-Congo language of the Bantu family, spoken in Kenya. The nasal prefix [n-] indicates that the verb is in the first person (‘I eat, go, sing,’ etc.). Two different processes occur when [n] stands before another consonant. Look at these words and think about what is happening. The symbols [β], [?] and [x] represent, respectively, a voiced bilabial fricative, a palatal nasal, and a voiceless velar fricative. (Remember that marks vowel length, so [i?] is a long vowel, not a sequence of two segments.)

1. How does the behavior of nasal differ when it stands before the different types of obstruents (stop, fricatives, and affricates)?

2.There are two phonological processes (remember the common phonological rules from our Phonology class) at work here. What are they?