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Frequent violation of the sonority sequencing principle in hundreds of languages: how often and by which sequences? 在数百种语言中频繁违反响度排序原则：频率和顺序？
IF 2 2区 文学
Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2023-01-12 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0038
Rui-hong Yin, Jeroen van de Weijer, Erich R. Round
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引用次数: 2
Bootstrap co-occurrence networks of consonants and the Basic Consonant Inventory 引导辅音共现网络和基本辅音清单
IF 2 2区 文学
Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2023-01-10 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0036
Dmitry Nikolaev
{"title":"Bootstrap co-occurrence networks of consonants and the Basic Consonant Inventory","authors":"Dmitry Nikolaev","doi":"10.1515/lingty-2022-0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2022-0036","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract It has been recently shown by Nikolaev and Grossman that it is possible to provide a fine-grained typological analysis of consonant inventories of the world’s languages by investigating co-occurrence classes of segments, i.e. groups of segments that tend to be found together in inventories. Nikolaev and Grossman argued that the structure of many of such co-occurrence classes is in contradiction with the Feature-Economy Principle. As a side product of this analysis, a new definition of the Basic Consonant Inventory (BCI)—a cluster of segments forming the bedrock of consonantal inventories of the world’s languages—was provided. This paper replicates the co-occurrence study in an arguably more robust way. In addition to making a methodological contribution, it shows that some of the co-occurrence classes defined by Nikolaev and Grossman, including the BCI, are not statistically stable and may be an artefact of the imbalance in the language sample used for the analysis. The findings of the authors regarding the Feature-Economy Principle, however, were corroborated.","PeriodicalId":45834,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Typology","volume":"27 1","pages":"363 - 380"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43873921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Diachronic phonological typology: understanding inventory structure through sound change dynamics 历时语音类型学:通过声音变化动态理解库存结构
IF 2 2区 文学
Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2023-01-05 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0042
Shelece Easterday, Joan Bybee
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引用次数: 1
Canonical phonology and criterial conflicts: relating and resolving four dilemmas of phonological typology 规范音韵学与标准冲突：联系和解决音韵学类型学的四大困境
IF 2 2区 文学
Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2023-01-05 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0032
Erich R. Round
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引用次数: 0
Place typology and evolution of implosives in Indo-Aryan languages 印度-雅利安语言的地方类型学和内爆的演变
IF 2 2区 文学
Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2023-01-04 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0040
Qandeel Hussain, Jeff Mielke
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引用次数: 0
The prosodic foot beyond prosodic prominence: a preliminary survey 超越韵律突出的韵律脚:初步调查
IF 2 2区 文学
Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2022-12-26 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0039
Kirsten Culhane
{"title":"The prosodic foot beyond prosodic prominence: a preliminary survey","authors":"Kirsten Culhane","doi":"10.1515/lingty-2022-0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2022-0039","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper presents a preliminary survey of foot-sensitive phenomena and foot structure separate from prosodic prominence or classifications such as ‘iambic’ and ‘trochaic’. It considers the evidence for and structure of the foot in a sample of 30 languages which demonstrate at least one foot-sensitive phenomenon which cannot be attributed to prosodic prominence. It finds that in the sample, there is considerable diversity in terms of: a) the type of evidence for and role played by the foot, b) the extent to which there is evidence for the foot, and c) the segmental structure of the foot. These findings demonstrate that the role of the foot is more diverse than often characterised. The findings of this paper also demonstrate that cross-linguistic differences between foot structures are more fine-grained than differences in the distribution of prosodic prominence or syllable weight; accounting for the diversity observed requires reference to the segmental structure of feet. In light of these findings, this paper calls for more examination of the prosodic foot separate from prosodic prominence, and which takes into consideration the variables of cross-linguistic diversity documented here.","PeriodicalId":45834,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Typology","volume":"27 1","pages":"313 - 339"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49043364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Refining explanation in Evolutionary Phonology: macro-typologies and targeted typologies in action 进化音系学中的精炼解释:宏观类型学和目标类型学的作用
IF 2 2区 文学
Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2022-12-26 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2021-0036
J. Blevins, Ander Egurtzegi
{"title":"Refining explanation in Evolutionary Phonology: macro-typologies and targeted typologies in action","authors":"J. Blevins, Ander Egurtzegi","doi":"10.1515/lingty-2021-0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2021-0036","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this paper, we highlight the role of typology in providing an empirical basis for explanation within Evolutionary Phonology with a focus on rare sound patterns and extra-phonetic explanation. Broad typological surveys of sound patterns or macro-typologies that include phonetic detail may, at once, support universal tendencies and document rare sound patterns, offering arguments for theories in which universal tendencies based on phonetic explanation are emergent properties of markedness-free grammars. However, in order to explain rarity and explore extra-phonetic factors, targeted typologies, narrowed by specific structural properties or contact histories, may be necessary. In this study, the complementary roles of broad and targeted typologies are illustrated through recent case studies of three basic components of phonological systems—sound inventories, alternations, and phonotactics—, with a focus on non-phonetic explanations that have enhanced the predictive power of the Evolutionary framework.","PeriodicalId":45834,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Typology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67024317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Estimating areal effects in typology: a case study of African phoneme inventories 估计类型学的区域效应:非洲音素清单的个案研究
IF 2 2区 文学
Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0037
Matías Guzmán Naranjo, Miri Mertner
{"title":"Estimating areal effects in typology: a case study of African phoneme inventories","authors":"Matías Guzmán Naranjo, Miri Mertner","doi":"10.1515/lingty-2022-0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2022-0037","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper, we combine several statistical techniques (multivariate probit models, Gaussian processes, and phylogenetic regression) into a new approach for exploring the areal patterns associated with the presence and absence of typological features. This model allows us to estimate and control for areal and genetic effects, the correlations between features, and their expected frequency of occurrence in the data. We use this model to explore the distribution of consonants in African languages, inferring several linguistic areas which have been proposed in the literature. Our results suggest that the combination of these methods is a promising new way of approaching language contact.","PeriodicalId":45834,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Typology","volume":"27 1","pages":"455 - 480"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45794219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
On the comparability of prosodic categories: why ‘stress’ is difficult 论韵律范畴的可比性：为什么“重音”很难
IF 2 2区 文学
Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2022-12-08 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0041
N. Himmelmann
{"title":"On the comparability of prosodic categories: why ‘stress’ is difficult","authors":"N. Himmelmann","doi":"10.1515/lingty-2022-0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2022-0041","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article argues that the prosodic category stress in West Germanic languages, which implicitly underlies practically all work on stress, is a complex cluster concept consisting of at least six dimensions which in turn involve a number of subdimensions. Because of its complexity, this concept is not useful for cross-linguistic comparison. A promising starting point for further typological inquiry is one of the six dimensions, i.e. acoustic and auditory prominence. However, identifying acoustic and auditory prominence distinctions cross-linguistically is also not straightforward and requires considerable empirical effort. Nevertheless, cross-linguistic comparison is still possible in the case of ‘difficult’ cluster concepts such as stress and does not require the use of arbitrary comparative concepts.","PeriodicalId":45834,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Typology","volume":"27 1","pages":"341 - 361"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46650793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Standard negation: the curious case of South America 标准否定:南美洲的奇特案例
IF 2 2区 文学
Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2022-11-30 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2021-0017
Olga Krasnoukhova olga krasnǝˈuxǝva, Johan van der Auwera jəʊhan van dər aʊəra, Sietze Norder si:tzə nordər
{"title":"Standard negation: the curious case of South America","authors":"Olga Krasnoukhova olga krasnǝˈuxǝva, Johan van der Auwera jəʊhan van dər aʊəra, Sietze Norder si:tzə nordər","doi":"10.1515/lingty-2021-0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2021-0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study compares standard negation in the indigenous languages of South America to the rest of the world. We show that South American languages not only prefer postverbal negation to preverbal negation and negative morphology to syntax, but postverbal morphological negation to any other negation strategy. The predominance of this strategy makes South America distinct from other macro-areas. The study also considers the areal distribution of negation on the South American continent. It shows that negation strategies each have their own concentration area. Postverbal morphological negation, which is the dominant strategy, turns out to be concentrated in the northwest of the continent, with the highest density around the boundaries between Colombia, Peru and Brazil. We suggest that the preference for postverbal morphological negation in South America is likely to be the result of language-internal mechanisms of negation renewal, coupled with language contact.","PeriodicalId":45834,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Typology","volume":"27 1","pages":"629 - 666"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67024313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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