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Mechanising Historical Phonology
Transactions of the Philological Society, 2018AbstractThe Neogrammarian approach to historical phonology involves propounding sound‐change laws and explaining exceptions by means such as sub‐laws, rearranging the relative chronology, and appeal to special factors such as analogy, borrowing, and sporadic phenomena like metathesis.
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Oceanic Linguistics, 2000
After a brief look at the synchronic phonology of this language of the Mariana Islands, the details of its development from Proto-Austronesian are set forth. Questions of subgrouping within Austronesian and the original settlement of these islands are also considered. 1. BACKGROUND.
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After a brief look at the synchronic phonology of this language of the Mariana Islands, the details of its development from Proto-Austronesian are set forth. Questions of subgrouping within Austronesian and the original settlement of these islands are also considered. 1. BACKGROUND.
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Oceanic Linguistics, 2014
The Aru Islands of the southern Moluccas in eastern Indonesia are linguistically among the most neglected regions in the Austronesian world. This paper draws on a published vocabulary of about 1,000 words for Dobel, spoken in east-central Aru, and outlines its historical development from Proto–Malayo-Polynesian. Extensive sound change has concealed the
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The Aru Islands of the southern Moluccas in eastern Indonesia are linguistically among the most neglected regions in the Austronesian world. This paper draws on a published vocabulary of about 1,000 words for Dobel, spoken in east-central Aru, and outlines its historical development from Proto–Malayo-Polynesian. Extensive sound change has concealed the
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Òma Lóngh Historical Phonology
Oceanic Linguistics, 2007The phonology of Óma Lóngh Kenyah as described by Soriente (2006) shows strinking typological difference from its nearest relatives. Contrary to a pattern of avoidance that is almost universal in Austronesian languages, it has developed final palatals, including voiceless unreleased palatal stop (written -j), and a palatal nasal (written -ny).
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2023
Abstract This chapter considers the historical phonology of the Scots language as a system, relating it to specific and thoroughgoing changes, such as the Great Vowel Shit and the Scottish Vowel Length Rule. The concept of lexical sets is introduced and comparisons are made between the sets for (Scottish) Standard English, Received ...
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Abstract This chapter considers the historical phonology of the Scots language as a system, relating it to specific and thoroughgoing changes, such as the Great Vowel Shit and the Scottish Vowel Length Rule. The concept of lexical sets is introduced and comparisons are made between the sets for (Scottish) Standard English, Received ...
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Marshallese phonology, the phonetics-phonology interface and historical linguistics
The Linguistic Review, 2000It is apparent from much recent work in Optimality Theory, as clearly indicated in Kager's (1999) survey, that the restructuring of the architecture of phonological theory has presented phonologists with the opportunity for a fundamental reconceptualization of many of the intriguing issues arising from the relationship between phonetics and phonology ...
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Norman Pama Historical Phonology
2015NORMAN PAMA HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY. 181Map 182 1. 'Proto-Paman' and Pre-Norman Pama 183 2. The Languages 187 3. Norman Pama as a Genetic Group 191 4. Phonologies of the Attested Languages 194 5. Pre-Norman Pama Phonology 198 6. Consonant Reflexes in Norman Pama 204 7. Consonant Loss and Lenition 206 8. Vowel Developments in Norman Pama 209 9.
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Historical Phonology and Evolutionary Phonology
Diachronica, 2008Laura Catharine Smith, Joseph C. Salmons
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Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 2008
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