The Role of Typology in Historical Phonology

Kümmel, Martin Joachim

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“…Basing his scenario on observed changes in obstruent inventories, Kümmel (2015) proposes an alternative inventory, i.e. that PIE originally had implosives; these are 'nonexplosive'stops: they have ingressive pulmonic airstream and for that reason, there is no release.…”

Section: The Original Ie/gmc Obstruent Inventorymentioning

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Grimm’s Law and Verner’s Law

Stenbrenden

2022

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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This paper gives a unified account of Grimm’s and Verner’s Laws in light of findings from experimental phonetics. The Germanic stress shift and stress placement shift are separate phenomena, and I argue that Iverson & Salmons’ (2003) shift in ‘articulatory setting’ corresponds to the former, and that the shift in how prosodic emphasis was expressed, from high pitch to dynamic stress, set Grimm’s Law in motion, because a phonetic correlate of dynamic stress is higher subglottal pressure. Increased subglottal pressure induced aspiration, affrication and spirantisation in Proto-Indo-European (PIE) voiceless stops and devoicing in voiced stops. The voiced aspirates became fricatives, which were allophones of voiced stops; these fricative allophones later fell together with the main plosive allophones to produce Germanic voiced stops.

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Section: The Original Ie/gmc Obstruent Inventorymentioning

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Grimm’s Law and Verner’s Law

Stenbrenden

2022

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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Armenian prosody in typology and diachrony

DeLisi

2018

Lang. Dyn. Change

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This paper examines the relationship between typology and historical linguistics through a case study from the history of Armenian, where two different stress systems are found in the modern language. The first is a penult system with no associated secondary stress ([… σ́σ]ω). The other, the so-called hammock pattern, has primary stress on the final syllable and secondary stress on the initial syllable of the prosodic word ([σ̀ … σ́]ω). Although penult stress patterns are by far more typologically common than the hammock pattern in the world’s languages, I will argue that the hammock pattern must be reconstructed for the period of shared innovation, the Proto-Armenian period.

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A survey of experimental evidence for diachronic change

Sanker

2018

Linguistics Vanguard

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There are synchronic sources of data that can provide an additional line of evidence which may be useful in reconstructing sound changes: patterns of sound change in progress and experimentally induced changes, variation in production, natural errors in production and perception, experimentally elicited errors in perception and production, and experiments and simulations of iterated learning. This article surveys existing studies that have made use of such evidence in support of sound changes and reviews limitations of experimental methods and factors to consider when designing experiments to use these parallels to inform sound change. To demonstrate the parallels between patterns in synchronic data and sound changes, a sample typology of diachronic developments was compared with patterns of categorical errors from experimentally elicited misperception in adverse listening conditions and errors of perception and production in natural speech. All of these correlations are highly significant, demonstrating the potential of such synchronic data as a source of parallels to provide evidence for reconstructed sound changes.

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The Role of Typology in Historical Phonology

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Grimm’s Law and Verner’s Law

Grimm’s Law and Verner’s Law

Armenian prosody in typology and diachrony

A survey of experimental evidence for diachronic change

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