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However, this is not what we find. Instead, the M tone skips the secondary
articulation and lodges on the = instead. In other words, the secondary articulation is
transparent to the tone patterns, and so it is best to interpret it as not bearing tone.
The two secondary articulations have a limited distribution in the syllable. Both
are attested following the velar and glottal consonants: , C, C C, C C , and D. In addition, the
palatal off-glide is attested following in two lexical items, MK= MK= MK= MK= ‘giraffe’ and C>=== C>=== C>=== C>===
‘November’, and following in one lexical item, (= (= (= (= ‘to shake’. Also, the marginal
phoneme could be interpreted as the sequence + , as mentioned in Section 2.1.3, but
there is more evidence for the phonemic status of than for or . It occurs in more
lexical items, and it is found in both word-initial and word-medial position. Nevertheless,
its interpretation as a phoneme is tentative.
Two observations concerning the distribution of labialization and palatalization
are worth noting. First, Ladefoged & Maddieson (p. 356) note that cross-linguistically
labialization most commonly co-occurs with velar obstruents. This generalization holds
for Mono as well. On the other hand, Ladefoged & Maddieson note that of all the
secondary articulations, it is labialization which usually co-occurs with the largest
number of different types of segments (p. 356). In Mono, we see that palatalization lays
claim to this, since it co-occurs with l and (and depending on how is interpreted) in
addition to the velar and glottal consonants.
Within a morpheme, the off-glides are nearly always followed by the vowel a.
The only exceptions to this are either in ideophones (CAH CAH CAH CAH ‘sound of a bell’ and
DM DM = = = = ‘hot’) or body parts (=( =( =( =( ‘hoof’). The secondary articulations do not immediately
follow labial-velar consonants, and they do not combine with each other in the same
syllable. The examples in my corpus are:
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