caa a22 4500 378893742 CHVBK 20180305123501.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041020xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.343 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.343 Hajek John 1. University of Melbourne. Consonant inventories as an areal feature of the New Guinea-Pacific region: Testing Trudgill's hypotheses [Elektronische Daten] [John Hajek] 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. © Walter de Gruyter Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure nationallicence Phonetics, phonology, prosody nationallicence areal linguistics nationallicence Austronesian nationallicence borrowing nationallicence language contact nationallicence New Guinea nationallicence phoneme inventories nationallicence Polynesian nationallicence Linguistic Typology Walter de Gruyter 8/3(2004-10-20), 343-350 1430-0532 8:3<343 2004 8 lity https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.343 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.343 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hajek John 1. University of Melbourne NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Linguistic Typology Walter de Gruyter 8/3(2004-10-20), 343-350 1430-0532 8:3<343 2004 8 lity CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter