caa a22 4500 37889370X CHVBK 20180305123501.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041020xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.321 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.321 Rice Keren 1. University of Toronto. Language contact, phonemic inventories, and the Athapaskan language family [Elektronische Daten] [Keren Rice] Languages of the Athapaskan family were often in contact with languages of other families, and speakers were often bilingual (or multilingual). The languages typically have large consonant inventories, and speakers were often bilingual in languages with smaller or larger inventories. These languages present a good laboratory of study for the predictions made by Peter Trudgill concerning sociolinguistic factors governing inventory size. There is relative stability in the size of the stem-initial consonant inventory across the language family independent of the type of contact situation found and the size of the consonant inventories of the languages in contact. © Walter de Gruyter Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure nationallicence Phonetics, phonology, prosody nationallicence areal linguistics nationallicence Athapaskan nationallicence bilingualism nationallicence borrowing nationallicence phoneme inventories nationallicence language contact nationallicence Linguistic Typology Walter de Gruyter 8/3(2004-10-20), 321-343 1430-0532 8:3<321 2004 8 lity https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.321 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.321 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rice Keren 1. University of Toronto NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Linguistic Typology Walter de Gruyter 8/3(2004-10-20), 321-343 1430-0532 8:3<321 2004 8 lity CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter