A Comprehensive Comparison of Lexemes in the ... - SIL International

List of map, tables, and figure
Map 1. Map of Tanna: Language areas and villages where data was elicited. ........ 3
Table 1.1. Demographic information on the languages of Tanna. ........................... 3
Table 1.2. Some idiosyncratic lexemes in the languages of Tanna. ......................... 4
Table 1.3. Some Tanna lexemes with idiosyncratic secondary meanings. ............... 5
Table 1.4. Potential errors when performing a cursory survey. .............................. 7
Table 2.1. Consonant correspondence. .................................................................... 9
Table 2.2. Vowel correspondence. .........................................................................11
Table 2.3. Degree of correspondence between the languages of Tanna. ...............16
Table 2.4. (Nearly) identical kastom lexemes in the languages of Tanna. .............17
Table 2.5. Idiosyncratic lexemes in the languages of Tanna. ................................19
Table 3.1. Minimal pairs for [ɨ], [ə], and [a]. .......................................................24
Figure 3.1. Lexicon layout. ....................................................................................26
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