A Phonological Description of the Gusiilaay Language

Introduction -- 1 Vowels -- 1.1 Phonology chart -- 1.2 10 vowel ATR harmony -- 1.2.1 Dominance of [+ATR] vowels: assimilation to a root -- 1.2.2 Dominance of [+ATR] vowels: assimilation to [+ATR] derivational suffixes -- 1.2.3 Inflectional suffixes -- 1.2.4 Interesting case: suffix [-um] nominalisator (instrumental) -- 1.2.5 [+ATR] value spreading to the other words -- 1.2.6 [+ATR] 'intensity' of spreading -- 1.3 Contrast between vowels -- 1.3.1 ATR contrast -- 1.3.2 Length contrast -- 1.3.3 Contrast between close vowels -- 1.4 Vowel loss -- 2 Consonants -- 2.1 Phonetic chart (to mark suspicious segments) -- 2.2 Consonant distribution -- 2.3 Contrasts (and analogous environment) -- 2.4 Prenasalised consonants -- 2.5 Long consonants -- 2.6 Consonant loss -- 2.7 Phonological chart -- 2.8 Inversion, metathesis -- 3 Morphophonology -- 3.1 Suffixation -- 3.2 Verb reduplication