David R Mortensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4321273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David R Mortensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | David R |
| FAMILY NAME | Mortensen |
| SIGNATURE | MORTENSEN D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3927-6851 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Kuki-Chin Phonology
The phonology of several Kuki-Chin (South Central Trans-Himalayan) languages have been described well, and there are fragmentary sketches of numerous others. Extensive diachronic work has also been done for the languages of this group. However, there is no comprehensive survey of the synchronic phonologies of Kuki-Chin languages. This chapter attempts to fill that gap so that researchers working on one of these languages, or doing broader typolog…
Large-scale computerized forward reconstruction yields new perspectives in French diachronic phonology
Traditionally, historical phonologists have relied on tedious manual derivations to sequence the sound changes that have shaped the phonological evolution of languages. However, humans are prone to errors, and cannot track thousands of parallel derivations in any efficient manner. We demonstrate computerized forward reconstruction (CFR), deriving each etymon in parallel, as a task with metrics to optimize, and as a tool which drastically facilita…
East Tusom
East Tusom is a Tibeto-Burman language of Manipur, India, belonging to the Tangkhulic group. While it shares some innovations with the other Tangkhulic languages, it differs markedly from “Standard Tangkhul” (which is based on the speech of Ukhrul town). Past documentation is limited to a small set of hastily transcribed forms in a comparative reconstruction of Tangkhulic rhymes ( Mortensen & Miller 2013 ; Mortensen 2012 ). This paper presents th…
General Session and Parasession on Gesture and Language
Tonally conditioned vowel raising in Shuijingping Mang
The emergence of obstruents after high vowels
While a few cases of the emergence of obstruents after high vowels are found in the literature (Burling 1966, 1967, Blust 1994), no attempt has been made to comprehensively collect instances of this sound change or give them a unified explanation. This paper attempts to resolve this gap in the literature by introducing a post-vocalic obstruent emergence (POE) as a recurring sound change with a phonetic (aerodynamic) basis. Possible cases are iden…
A classification of compounds in American Sign Language
Lexical prefixes and Tibeto-Burman laryngeal contrasts
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2013), pp. 272-286
The Emergence of Dorsal Stops after High Vowels in Huishu
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The Emergence of Dorsal Stops after High Vowels in Huishu
Lexical prefixes and Tibeto-Burman laryngeal contrasts
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2013), pp. 272-286
The emergence of obstruents after high vowels
While a few cases of the emergence of obstruents after high vowels are found in the literature (Burling 1966, 1967, Blust 1994), no attempt has been made to comprehensively collect instances of this sound change or give them a unified explanation. This paper attempts to resolve this gap in the literature by introducing a post-vocalic obstruent emergence (POE) as a recurring sound change with a phonetic (aerodynamic) basis. Possible cases are iden…
A classification of compounds in American Sign Language
Tonally conditioned vowel raising in Shuijingping Mang
General Session and Parasession on Gesture and Language
East Tusom
East Tusom is a Tibeto-Burman language of Manipur, India, belonging to the Tangkhulic group. While it shares some innovations with the other Tangkhulic languages, it differs markedly from “Standard Tangkhul” (which is based on the speech of Ukhrul town). Past documentation is limited to a small set of hastily transcribed forms in a comparative reconstruction of Tangkhulic rhymes ( Mortensen & Miller 2013 ; Mortensen 2012 ). This paper presents th…
Kuki-Chin Phonology
The phonology of several Kuki-Chin (South Central Trans-Himalayan) languages have been described well, and there are fragmentary sketches of numerous others. Extensive diachronic work has also been done for the languages of this group. However, there is no comprehensive survey of the synchronic phonologies of Kuki-Chin languages. This chapter attempts to fill that gap so that researchers working on one of these languages, or doing broader typolog…
Large-scale computerized forward reconstruction yields new perspectives in French diachronic phonology
Traditionally, historical phonologists have relied on tedious manual derivations to sequence the sound changes that have shaped the phonological evolution of languages. However, humans are prone to errors, and cannot track thousands of parallel derivations in any efficient manner. We demonstrate computerized forward reconstruction (CFR), deriving each etymon in parallel, as a task with metrics to optimize, and as a tool which drastically facilita…
Linguistics (8 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Vowel (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Phonology (3 works) · Diphthong (2 works)