I describe and analyse data from Amarasi, a language with morphological
consonant-vowel metathesis. Depending on the phonotactic structure of the stem to
which it applies, metathesis is associated with a number of other phonological processes
including: vowel deletion, consonant deletion and two kinds of vowel assimilation.
By proposing that Amarasi has an obligatory CVCVC foot in which C-slots
can be empty all these phonological processes can be derived from a single process of
metathesis and one associated morphemically conditioned process. I consider analyses
other than the rule-based one adopted in this paper and show that they cannot
account for all the data in a consistent, plausible way.

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• The morphology and phonology of metathesis in Amarasi