Items for "Turkic"

Acquiring 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