The Bilabial-to-Linguolabial Shift in Southern Oceanic: A Subgrouping Diagnostic?

IF 0.4 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

OCEANIC LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2020-03-11 DOI:10.1353/ol.2019.0010

J. Lynch

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Abstract

Abstract:A highly unusual sound change in around 15 Southern Oceanic languages spoken in Espiritu Santo and Malakula in Vanuatu produced linguolabials from bilabials when before Proto-Oceanic nonback vowels, with those linguolabials further developing as apicals in some of those languages. Despite the development of these extremely rare phonemes, I will show that this phonological shift is not diagnostic of a single subgroup consisting of all the languages that evidence it. Rather, it appears that the linguolabial shift (i) supports a subgrouping of all or nearly all of those Espiritu Santo languages that show it, but (ii) was introduced into the phonological inventory of a number of Malakula languages at a much later date, spreading through contact rather than by inheritance.

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南大洋地区的双语-舌语转换:一个亚群诊断?

摘要：在瓦努阿图的圣埃斯皮里图语和马拉库拉语中，约有15种南大洋洲语言的发音发生了极不寻常的变化，在原大洋洲非背元音之前，这些语言从双元音产生了舌唇，其中一些语言的舌唇进一步发展为舌尖。尽管这些极为罕见的音位已经发展起来，但我将表明，这种音位转换并不是对由所有证明它的语言组成的单一亚群的诊断。相反，似乎林果唇语转换（I）支持所有或几乎所有显示它的埃斯皮里图-桑托语的亚群，但（ii）在很久以后被引入了一些马拉库拉语的语音库，通过接触而不是继承传播。

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OCEANIC LINGUISTICS LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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期刊介绍： Oceanic Linguistics is the only journal devoted exclusively to the study of the indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts of Southeast Asia. The thousand-odd languages within the scope of the journal are the aboriginal languages of Australia, the Papuan languages of New Guinea, and the languages of the Austronesian (or Malayo-Polynesian) family. Articles in Oceanic Linguistics cover issues of linguistic theory that pertain to languages of the area, report research on historical relations, or furnish new information about inadequately described languages.