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Elisabeth Patz

Author, Kuku Yalanji reference grammar

Kuku Yalanji

The grammar and phonology that ground the Yalanji pronunciation bridge.

Elisabeth Patz wrote A Grammar of the Kuku Yalanji Language of North Queensland (2002, Pacific Linguistics), the reference description of the language. Its account of the sound system and rules — final-/y/ deletion, compounding and reduplication — directly grounds how the app converts Yalanji spelling for synthesis.