text_combined: sum metathesis back may posted query linguist anlang austronesian languages linguistics asking references treatments metathesis using recent phonological theory mainly interested synchronic metathesis c v type occurs pervasively dawan w timor bit work summary responses lists came juliette blevins bob blust jim fox beth hume greg kinkley john mccarthy andy pawley john stonham mark taber aone van engelenhoven turns metathesis come play fairly important role recent discussions morphological phonological theory also examples metathesis synchronic phenomenon coming light various language descriptions austronesian languages provoked considerable interest rotuman probably best known e g besnier 1987 letinese van engelenhoven dawan steinhauer tarno et al becoming better known literature chuck barabara grimes p c number languages eastern indonesia exhibiting varieties metathesis waiting wings examination theoreticians e g christensen christensen 1992 coward 1990 coward coward appear marshall 1991 steven 1990 taber taber 1992 references provided mark taber metathesis relatively rare phenomenon natural language climate theoreticians wanting let universal principles constraints explain output grammars appears contravene constraints phonologists morphologists would like impose languages important change suggested autosegmental theory designed accommodate crucial instances metathesis without appealing movement rules segregation c v tiers applied rotuman besnier 1987 since moves made make constraints interplay foundation theory directly trend seems towards abandoning devices tier segregation least optimality theory optimality theory one constraints suggested segments preserve linear order linearity mccarthy 1995 obviously overridden heavily metathesising languages like dawan approaches within optimality theory mccarthy hume one principle dominate another principle therefore override c v metathesising languages certain conditions principle demanding morpheme word 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