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3.4.4 Symbolization of phonological processes<br />

3.5 <strong>The</strong> nasal consonants of <strong>Bidayuh</strong><br />

4 Canonical shapes of <strong>Bidayuh</strong> words<br />

4.1 Structure of the word<br />

4.1.1 Limitations of phoneme occurrence in the word<br />

4.1.2 Structure of the ultima<br />

4.1.3 Structure of the penult<br />

4.1.4 Structure of the ante-penult <strong>and</strong> ante-ante-penult (second- <strong>and</strong> third-from-last<br />

syllables of a four-syllable word)<br />

4.1.5 Word-initial consonant clusters<br />

4.1.6 Word-medial consonant clusters<br />

4.1.7 Vocalic sequences<br />

4.1.8 Other issues of phoneme interrelatedness<br />

4.2 Shorter (one-syllable) words/roots<br />

4.3 Longer words<br />

4.3.1 Possible three-syllable stems<br />

4.3.2 Reduplicative words<br />

4.3.3 Possible compound words<br />

4.4 Affixes<br />

5 Nasal spread<br />

5.1 Forward (progressive) nasal spread<br />

5.2 Reverse (regressive) nasal spread<br />

5.3 Nasal spread <strong>and</strong> preplosion of word-final nasals<br />

5.4 Nasal spread <strong>and</strong> nasal+obstruent clusters<br />

5.5 Outcomes of nasal+obstruent clusters in major dialect groupings<br />

6 ‘New’ nasality<br />

5.5.1 Eastern dialects<br />

5.5.2 Western dialects (Bau District) <strong>and</strong> most central dialects (Kuching District)<br />

6.1 Increase of forward nasal spread from nasal+voiced-obstruent clusters<br />

6.2 Increase of reverse nasal spread from (preploded) word-final nasals<br />

6.3 ‘New’ nasality in Bukar<br />

6.3.1 Developments from medial clusters in Bukar<br />

6.3.2 Reverse nasal spread in Bukar<br />

6.4 ‘New’ nasality in Bunan<br />

6.4.1 Developments from medial clusters in Bunan<br />

6.4.2 Reverse nasal spread in Bunan<br />

6.4.3 Sociolinguistic aspects of Bunan nasality<br />

6.5 ‘New’ nasality in Bengoh<br />

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