caa a22 4500 378893793 CHVBK 20180305123501.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041020xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.368 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.368 Bakker Peter 1. Aarhus Universitet. Phoneme inventories, language contact, and grammatical complexity: A critique of Trudgill [Elektronische Daten] [Peter Bakker] There is no support for Trudgill's thesis. There are languages with exceptionally high numbers of consonants that are spoken by large groups, sometimes by millions as a second language. A pilot survey of contact languages (pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages) does not reveal unusual numbers of phonemes. Non-creole languages that have simplified their verbal infliection due to contact and second language learning appear not to decrease phoneme numbers either. Even most mixed languages that arose among fully bilingual groups fail to show exceptionally high numbers of consonants, even though some may display more complicated structures than their component languages. There is no correlation between language contact and phoneme inventories. © Walter de Gruyter Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure nationallicence Phonetics, phonology, prosody nationallicence bilingualism nationallicence creole nationallicence language contact nationallicence mixed languages nationallicence phoneme inventories nationallicence pidgin nationallicence social structure nationallicence Linguistic Typology Walter de Gruyter 8/3(2004-10-20), 368-375 1430-0532 8:3<368 2004 8 lity https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.368 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.368 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bakker Peter 1. Aarhus Universitet NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Linguistic Typology Walter de Gruyter 8/3(2004-10-20), 368-375 1430-0532 8:3<368 2004 8 lity CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter