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Preface Introduction
1. Phonology 2. Morphophonemics 3. The Sawai seven-vowel system References
1. Stress 2. System of phonemes 3. Ambivalent phonemes 4. Distribution of phonemes 5. Morphophonemics 6. Conclusion References
1. Segments 2. Syllables 3. Stress and the phonological word 4. Stress in contractions and compounds 5. Stress shift at clause level 6. Summary 7. Interlinearized text References
1. Stress 2. Phonemes 3. Syllable and root structure 4. Lexical rules for affixation 5. Reduplication 6. Cliticization and other syntactic processes 7. Postsyntactic processes 8. Summary of rules 9. Summary of River dialect phonology References