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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 Gruyter
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

10/2004 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter