Title: (12) A Contrastive Study of Pulaar and Noon Phonology: The Case of the Consonants 

Author: Tidiane Barry (Professeur d’anglais)

Abstract 

         This article is about the contrastive structure of the consonants of Pulaar and Noon. It deals with the distribution of each consonant sound. In Pulaar as well as in Noon the scattering of consonants is governed by specific rules. At their onsets no consonant is forbidden but at their medial and final ones, there are some restrictions. That is to say some consonants cannot appear at the middle and others at the termination of a word. Neither Pulaar nor Noon allows a cluster at its initial and final position although some specialists consider the pre-nasals as clusters. However, these languages share more similarities than differences.

Keywords: Phonology, Cluster, Consonnant clusters 

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