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    The Phonology of Wolayta Generative Approach
    (1983-06) Ejigu, Yitbarek; Wedekind, Klaus (PhD)
    The study has three main partso The first is an introduction which gives the review of literature of previous works and of the generative approacho This part also explains the purpose and scope of the study. The second part is a description of the phonology of Wolayta in detail. The possible phonetic sounds, the short and long phonemes, the allophonic and morphophonemic variants, the syllable structure and its processes including vowel harmony and supra-segmentals are discussed. The third part consists of the conclusiono It presents the summary of the preceding parts and gives remarks on further study of supra-segmentals for more complete work of Wolayta phonologyo