phonetics

The mystery of word-initial consonant loss in Kera’a

Kera’a, a Trans-Himalayan language, shows a theoretically and typologically unexpected loss of word-initial consonants in CV syllables (e.g. /kalondrõ/ /alondrõ/ ‘mosquito’, /tahru/ /ahru/ ‘to listen’, /miku/ /iku/ ‘dog’). Word-initial consonant …