Areal sound change and the distributional typology of affricate richness in Eurasia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20381191
AutoresDmitry Nikolaev (0000-0003-2436-1532, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Eitan Grossman (0000-0001-7479-7831, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Año2018
Volumen42
Número3
Páginas562-599
Fecha de publicación2018-10-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaStudies in Language (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0378-4177 • E-ISSN: 1569-9978
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/sl.17043.nik
OpenAlexW2897619742
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas35

This paper makes a contribution to phonological typology by investigating the distribution of affricate-rich languages in Eurasia. It shows that affricate-rich and affricate-dense languages cluster areally within Eurasia and have area-specific histories. In particular, the affricate-rich areas of western Eurasia – a ‘European’ area and a Caucasian area – are not the result of contact-induced sound changes or borrowing, while the two affricate-rich areas of eastern Eurasia – the Hindukush area and the Eastern Himalayan area – are the result of contact. Specifically, affricate-dense areas depend on the emergence of retroflex affricates. Moreover, languages outside these affricate-dense areas tend to lose retroflex affricates

Archaeology · Geography · Language contact · Linguistics · Typology · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and language evolution · Phonetics and Phonology Research