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The data in (3) show sample contrasts between the alveolar consonants in Mono.
(3) a. Alveolar consonants before = in word-initial position:
J J= J= ‘cut’
@ @= @= ‘slap’
@ @=(>= @=(>= @=(>= @=(>= ‘table’
I I= I= ‘leak’
= = = = ‘give, take’
= = = = ‘go, come’
H H=(M=( H=(M=( ‘yell’
= = = = ‘lick’
b. Alveolar consonants before = in word-medial position:
K= K= K= K= ‘debt’
J J= J= J= J= ‘large river, sea’
@ =(@=( =(@=( =(@=( =(@=( ‘oil, grease’
@ =@= =@= =@= =@= ‘door’
I C(I=( C(I=( C(I=( C(I=( ‘type of green vegetable’
>== >== >== >== ‘xylophone’
L== L== L== L== ‘four’
H >==H= >==H= >==H= >==H= ‘lion’
=(>=(=( =(>=(=( =(>=(=( =(>=(=( ‘bait’
2.1.3 Palatal consonants
I group alveopalatal and palatal consonants into a palatal category, which consists
of seven consonants: J5 J5, J5 @ @, @ @ @ @, @ @ 5, , , and .
The phoneme is relatively rare, both in discourse and the lexicon. It occurs in
thirteen words in my corpus:
(4) AA AA AA AA ‘caterpillar’
‘tooth’
CA( CA( CA( CA( =LKHK =LKHK =LKHK =LKHK ‘drizzle’
H H H H ‘fat’
J5=( J5=(=CK=H= J5=( =CK=H= =CK=H= =CK=H= ‘shade, shelter’
A A A A
‘grovel’
AH AH AH AH ‘descend’
E E E E
‘belch’
EC>= EC>= EC>= EC>= ‘grumble, roar’
MK MK MK MK ‘embers’
‘wake up’
K K K K ‘burn’
KCM= KCM= KCM= KCM= ‘forest spirit’
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