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Linguistic and social typology: The Austronesian migrations and phoneme inventories
There is a challenging issue for linguistic typology which involves the relationships which might exist between societal type and aspects of linguistic structure...
Keywords: areal linguistics, Austronesian, community size, language contact, phoneme inventories, Polynesian, social structure
10/2004 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterLanguage contact, phonemic inventories, and the Athapaskan language family
Languages of the Athapaskan family were often in contact with languages of other families, and speakers were often bilingual (or multilingual)...
Keywords: areal linguistics, Athapaskan, bilingualism, borrowing, phoneme inventories, language contact
10/2004 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterConsonant 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
10/2004 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterAcquiring phonology is not acquiring inventories but contrasts: The loss of Turkic and Korean primary long vowels
Evaluating Trudgill's correlation of phoneme inventory size with social factors, this paper highlights the role of phonological structure in the acquisition of phonological contrast, with particular reference to Turkic and Korean vowel inventories...
Keywords: acquisition, areal linguistics, Korean, language contact, phoneme inventories, Turkic, vowel quantity
10/2004 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterPhoneme inventories, language contact, and grammatical complexity: A critique of Trudgill
There is no support for Trudgill's thesis. There are languages with exceptionally high numbers of consonants that are spoken by large groups, sometimes by millions as a second language...
Keywords: bilingualism, creole, language contact, mixed languages, phoneme inventories, pidgin, social structure
10/2004 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterThere is no correlation between the size of a community speaking a language and the size of the phonological inventory of that language
In the target article, Trudgill assumes, based on the inspection of some Austronesian/Polynesian languages, that large community size favours medium-sized phonological inventories, whereas small community size favours either small phonological inventories or large inventories, and he then undertakes to explain these “facts”...
Keywords: phoneme inventories, social structure
10/2004 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter