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Velma Leeding

Anindilyakwa phonologist

Anindilyakwa

Foundational analysis of Anindilyakwa sounds.

Velma Leeding’s PhD, Anindilyakwa Phonology and Morphology (1989, University of Sydney), is a foundational study of the language’s sound system — including the influential two-vowel analysis that, with Stokes’ account, frames how the language’s vowels are understood and pronounced.