Problems and progress in Lolo-Burmese: quo vadimus?
Matisoff James A.
Berkeley: University of California. In Linguistics in Tibeto-Burman area Vol 4, No 2, 1979. — 11 - 43 p.This paper is a brief outline of ongoing research into seven Loloish languages: Lahu, Lisu, Akha, Sani, Bisu, Lu-chuan, and Nakhi. After some remarks on the PLB phonological system, we go on to discuss PLB syllable-onsets, and their repercussions on the manners and positions of articulation of initial stops in the daughter languages.