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Spoken Tibetan Morphophonemics: p

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Betty Shefts and
Kun Chang
Betty Shefts
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
Kun Chang
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
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Abstract

In certain spoken Tibetan compounds, there is a medial p which does not occur with either member of these compounds in isolation. This raises several questions which we attempt to answer in this article: (1) Are there descriptive grounds for assigning this p to one of the member morphemes? (2) Written Tibetan represents to some degree a much earlier stage of Tibetan. Does Written Tibetan support the reconstruction of morphemes in p? (3) Is there evidence outside Tibetan to support such reconstructions?

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Language , Volume 43 , Issue 2-Part1 , June 1967, pp. 512 - 525
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Copyright © 1967 by Linguistic Society of America

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