A Grammar of Qaqet

Hellwig, Birgit

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“…This suggests differential effects of phrase-final lengthening on consonants and vowels. Hellwig (2019) notes that the (phonemic) schwa vowel does not show effects of final lengthening (an effect which is consistent with the 'non-elastic' nature of this vowel cross-linguistically -see Tabain 2016), and it is likely that the consonant is proportionately more lengthened in this case.…”

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“…For these reasons we do not present a plot of average diphthong trajectories here, and instead suggest that further study is needed of this variability. The reader is once again referred to Hellwig (2019) for further discussion.…”

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“…These two features are considered characteristic features of Oceanic, not of East Papuan languages (Dunn et al 2008: 743), and are thought to have arisen as the result of contact between speakers of Qaqet and speakers of Oceanic languages. The consonant table above is based on Hellwig (2019); non-transparent orthography is shown between angular brackets. Note that there are no glide phonemes.…”

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Qaqet

Tabain¹,

Hellwig²

2022

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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Qaqet (Glottocode qaqe1238; ISO 639-3: byx) is a Papuan (i.e. non-Austronesian) Baining language that is spoken by an estimated 15,000 people in Papua New Guinea’s East New Britain Province. Figure 1 shows a map of where Qaqet and the four other known Baining languages (Mali, Kairak (also spelt Qairaq – see map), Simbali and Ura) are spoken (see Stebbins, Evans & Terrill 2017 for an overview of Baining; for phonological descriptions, see Stanton 2007 on Ura, and Stebbins 2011 on Mali). The wider affiliations of the Baining languages are unknown. They share typological features with other East Papuan languages (i.e. the non-Austronesian languages of Island Melanesia), but there is no historical-comparative evidence to establish genealogical relationships.1 In terms of phonology, there are no structures shared across all of East Papuan, but Baining languages have similarities to the East Papuan language Kuot spoken on neighbouring New Ireland (i.e. the intervocalic lenition of voiceless plosives; pitch movements at the right edge of intonation units).2 Furthermore, language contact is known to have taken place across the entire region, and Baining languages share typological features with Oceanic languages. This includes phonemic contrasts between voiceless and voiced plosives and between /r/ and /l/; as well as a number of morphosyntactic structures (e.g. a large inventory of definite and indefinite articles, AVO/SV constituent order, prepositions).

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Hellwig²

2022

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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“…Throughout the study, occasional reference will be made to the longitudinal corpus constructed by our research team 9 since 2014 (Hellwig et al 2014-19). The corpus comprises weekly, hour-long video-recordings of children from nine families, four of these from Raunsepna and five from coastal Kamanakam, resulting in a corpus of more than 250 hours of recorded spontaneous interactions.…”

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Child-directed Speech in Qaqet: A Language of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Frye¹

2022

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“…The two exceptions are Baining(Hellwig 2019) and Western Daly(Ford 1998). These attest lexical and phonological differences between dialects, and report grammatical variables which are non-dialectal, but we did not identify any variables that are both dialectal and grammatical.…”

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Dialectal differences and linguistic divergence: A cross-linguistic survey of grammatical variation

Mansfield¹,

Leslie-O'Neill²,

Li³

2022

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This article presents a new type of comparative linguistic survey, analysing a database of 1155 grammatical constructions drawn from 42 genealogically and geographically diverse languages. We focus in particular on GRAMMATICAL VARIABLES, that is variant expressions of the same grammatical meaning, and whether they do or don’t differentiate geographic dialects. This is unique as a systematic, cross-linguistic study of dialect differences. We identify three main structural types of grammatical variable: FORM, ORDER and OMISSION, and find that in situations of close contact between dialect groups, form variables are more likely to differentiate dialects than the other two types. Order and omission variables usually only differentiate dialects that have minimal contact. Our findings suggest that signalling of group identity may have a role in the divergence of grammars, and this affects some dimensions of grammar more than others.

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A Grammar of Qaqet

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Child-directed Speech in Qaqet: A Language of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Dialectal differences and linguistic divergence: A cross-linguistic survey of grammatical variation

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