caa a22 4500 378893769 CHVBK 20180305123501.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041020xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.305 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.305 Trudgill Peter 1. Université de Fribourg. Linguistic and social typology: The Austronesian migrations and phoneme inventories [Elektronische Daten] [Peter Trudgill] There is a challenging issue for linguistic typology which involves the relationships which might exist between societal type and aspects of linguistic structure. Linguistic-typological studies have provided us with insights into the range of structures available in human languages, but we do not yet have explanations for why, of all the possible structures available, particular languages select particular structures and not others. A legitimate sociolinguistic viewpoint would be that some social explanations may be available. The sociolinguistic factors suggested as being relevant are language contact versus isolation, and community size and network structure. This paper deals with this thesis from the point of view of Austronesian phonology, with particular reference to Polynesian phoneme inventories. © Walter de Gruyter Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure nationallicence Phonetics, phonology, prosody nationallicence areal linguistics nationallicence Austronesian nationallicence community size nationallicence language contact nationallicence phoneme inventories nationallicence Polynesian nationallicence social structure nationallicence Linguistic Typology Walter de Gruyter 8/3(2004-10-20), 305-320 1430-0532 8:3<305 2004 8 lity https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.305 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.305 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Trudgill Peter 1. Université de Fribourg NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Linguistic Typology Walter de Gruyter 8/3(2004-10-20), 305-320 1430-0532 8:3<305 2004 8 lity CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter