A Quantitative Approach to the Contrast and Stability of Sounds

نویسندگان

  • Thomas Mayer
  • Christian Rohrdantz
  • Frans Plank
  • Miriam Butt
  • Daniel A. Keim
چکیده

A Quantitative Approach to the Contrast and Stability of Sounds The phonology of a language (like other components of grammar) undergoes change in the course of time. Languages differ as to which phonemic contrasts are made and also which changes their phonological system undergoes. How intimately related these two aspects of a phonological system are remains an open question, though usually some relationship is expected. In this paper we look at two aspects of phonological systems and language change: 1) the relative stability of phonemes as presumed indirectly from a cross-linguistic study of cognates; 2) expressions of phonemic contrast with respect to a cross-linguistic study of word forms which differ in only one sound.

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تاریخ انتشار 2011