Acquiring phonology is not acquiring inventories but contrasts: The loss of Turkic and Korean primary long vowels

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Bariş Kabak]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2004
Enthalten in:
Linguistic Typology, 8/3(2004-10-20), 351-368
Format:
Artikel (online)
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520 3 |a Evaluating Trudgill's correlation of phoneme inventory size with social factors, this paper highlights the role of phonological structure in the acquisition of phonological contrast, with particular reference to Turkic and Korean vowel inventories. Factors such as social dominance, isolation, and community size are shown not to provide plausible explanations for the loss of primary long vowels in most Turkic languages and their preservation in a few others, nor for the neutralization which long and short vowels currently undergo in Korean. It is suggested that such changes in phoneme inventories can be better understood as a result of phonetic and phonological processes involving the contrastive features and phonological contexts that define the phonemes in question. Processes referring to vowel length in Turkic and Korean are argued to have obscured its contrastive status in the organization of phonological knowledge by the speakers of these languages. 
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690 7 |a Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Phonetics, phonology, prosody  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a acquisition  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a areal linguistics  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Korean  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a language contact  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a phoneme inventories  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Turkic  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a vowel quantity  |2 nationallicence 
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