Items for "New Guinea"

Consonant inventories as an areal feature of the New Guinea-Pacific region: Testing Trudgill's hypotheses

Trudgill has proposed that the size of the phonological inventory for a language correlates with the extent of language contact, with isolated small languages having very small or large inventories, and provides evidence for his claim from the Pacific region...

Keywords: areal linguistics, Austronesian, borrowing, language contact, New Guinea, phoneme inventories, Polynesian