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View article: The Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database
The Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database Open
The Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database encodes 265 linguistic features from 17 different featural domains across 220 North and South American languages and 105 languages in the rest of the world. The domains cover…
View article: Is there a typological profile of isolates?
Is there a typological profile of isolates? Open
Across the linguistic literature, one occasionally encounters claims of typological differences between isolates and non-isolates, but these are often vague, and tend to use isolates as proxies for small community size, hunter-gatherer soc…
View article: Current research in phonological typology
Current research in phonological typology Open
Trubetzkoy 1939), its study is still underrepresented in many important venues (Hyman 2007; Hyman and Plank 2018).Therefore, we (Moran and Grossman) organized two conference workshops in 2019 aimed specifically at highlighting current rese…
View article: Supplementary materials for "Primal consonants and the evolution of consonant inventories" by Joan Bybee and Shelece Easterday, published in LDC (2022).
Supplementary materials for "Primal consonants and the evolution of consonant inventories" by Joan Bybee and Shelece Easterday, published in LDC (2022). Open
These are the supplementary materials for an article published in Language Dynamics and Change, entitled "Primal consonants and the evolution of consonant inventories" by Joan Bybee and Shelece Easterday, with DOI: 10.1163/22105832-bja1002…
View article: Corrigendum: Syllable Complexity and Morphological Synthesis: A Well-Motivated Positive Complexity Correlation Across Subdomains
Corrigendum: Syllable Complexity and Morphological Synthesis: A Well-Motivated Positive Complexity Correlation Across Subdomains Open
The authors are thankful to the following experts for sharing their data with the DoReCo project, which was used in the corpus analyses presented in the current paper (see Table 2 of the supplementary materials for details about their data…
View article: Syllable Complexity and Morphological Synthesis: A Well-Motivated Positive Complexity Correlation Across Subdomains
Syllable Complexity and Morphological Synthesis: A Well-Motivated Positive Complexity Correlation Across Subdomains Open
Relationships between phonological and morphological complexity have long been proposed in the linguistic literature, with empirical investigations often seeking complexity trade-offs. Positive complexity correlations tend not to be viewed…
View article: Consonant strengthening: A crosslinguistic survey and articulatory proposal
Consonant strengthening: A crosslinguistic survey and articulatory proposal Open
Given the common intuition that consonant lenition occurs more often than fortition, we formulate this as a hypothesis, defining these sound change types in terms of decrease or increase in oral constriction. We then test the hypothesis on…
View article: Highly complex syllable structure: A typological and diachronic study
Highly complex syllable structure: A typological and diachronic study Open
The syllable is a natural unit of organization in spoken language whose strongest cross-linguistic patterns are often explained in terms of a universal preference for the CV structure. Syllable patterns involving long sequences of consonan…
View article: Highly complex syllable structure
Highly complex syllable structure Open
The syllable is a natural unit of organization in spoken language whose strongest cross-linguistic patterns are often explained in terms of a universal preference for the CV structure. Syllable patterns involving long sequences of consonan…
View article: Highly complex syllable structure: a typological study of its phonological characteristics and diachronic development
Highly complex syllable structure: a typological study of its phonological characteristics and diachronic development Open
The syllable is a natural unit of organization in spoken language. Strong cross-linguistic tendencies in syllable size and shape are often explained in terms of a universal preference for the CV structure, a type which is also privileged i…