Metathesis
Eugene Buckley · The Blackwell Companion to Phonology · 2011
The termmetathesis– Greek for ‘transposition’ – refers to a reordering of segments. This chapter outlines the range of phenomena that fall under this description, and theoretical perspectives on their insightful analysis. Other cross‐linguistic surveys of this topic include Webb (1974), Ultan (1978), Hock (1985), Wanner (1989), Blevins and Garrett (1998, 2004), Becker (2000), and Hume (2001, 2004).