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Consonant inventories as an areal feature of the New Guinea-Pacific region: Testing Trudgill's hypotheses
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John Hajek
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July 27, 2005
Abstract
Trudgill has proposed that the size of the phonological inventory for a language correlates with the extent of language contact, with isolated small languages having very small or large inventories, and provides evidence for his claim from the Pacific region. The claim is scrutinised in light of the history and size of the language communities. Language contact is also seen to have contributed to the small and large inventories found in the region.
Keywords: areal linguistics; Austronesian; borrowing; language contact; New Guinea; phoneme inventories; Polynesian
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Published Online: 2005-07-27
Published in Print: 2004-10-20
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Keywords for this article
areal linguistics;
Austronesian;
borrowing;
language contact;
New Guinea;
phoneme inventories;
Polynesian
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