Sonic Signatures

Based on their unsteady states, and audible transitional propensity towards a following sound or away from a preceding sound, the palatal and labial glides look quite unique vis-à-vis the more steady state vowels and true consonants. This uniqueness lies chiefly in the ability of the glide to occur either as a true onset segment or a nuclear on-glide, as well as a post-peak segment in languages. With reduplication as a basis, this paper employs correspondence theory to examine the precise pre-pe