Word Final Phonology in Lardil: Implications of an Expanded Data Set

Round, Erich R.

doi:10.1080/07268602.2011.598630

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“…Linguistic research in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria region has focused on the Tangkic family of languages spoken on the Wellesley Islands and adjacent mainland (O'Grady et al 1966;Keen 1983;Hale 1973;Klokeid 1976;McConvell 1981;Blake 1990Blake , 1991Evans 1985Evans , 1990Evans , 1995aEvans ,b, 2005Round 2009Round , 2010Round , 2011Round , 2013Round , 2014. Since Evans (1985), it has been clear that the Tangkic family comprises two main historical branches, represented by Lardil (Northern Tangkic), and by Yangkaal, Kayardild, Ganggalida, Nguburindi and Yangarella (Southern Tangkic) ( Figure 1).…”

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Fission, fusion and syncretism

Memmott

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Rosendahl

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Culture and Language Use

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A revised model of Tangkic linguistic and cultural history is developed based on a reanalysis of relationships between six Tangkic languages in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria and drawing on recent archaeological and environmental studies. Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Tangkic basic vocabulary was employed to infer the topology of the Tangkic family tree and define structural branching events. Contrary to previous models suggesting progressive colonisation and fissioning from mainland sources, the data support hypotheses that the modern configuration of Tangkic owes its form to pulses of outward movement from Mornington Island followed by subsequent linguistic divergence in both grammar and lexicon of the varieties. We also speculate that an extreme environmental event (c.800-400 BP) may have flooded low-lying coastal areas resulting in abandonment of some areas, a relatively short co-residence involving cultural and linguistic syncretism between neighbouring groups and then recolonization.

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“…Synchronic word-final deletion is attested, though is rare in Australian languages (Round in prep). Lardil (lbz) productively deletes final vowels and some preceding consonants (Hale 1973;Round 2011). These have a complex diachrony, originating as word-final consonant deletion and utterance-final vowel deletion rules found throughout the Tangkic language family (Round 2010;Round 2017a).…”

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Where have all the sound changes gone? Examining the scarcity of evidence for regular sound change in Australian languages

Miceli

Round

2022

Linguistics Vanguard

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Almost universally, diachronic sound patterns of languages reveal evidence of both regular and irregular sound changes, yet an exception may be the languages of Australia. Here we discuss a long-observed and striking characteristic of diachronic sound patterns in Australian languages, namely the scarcity of evidence they present for regular sound change. Since the regularity assumption is fundamental to the comparative method, Australian languages pose an interesting challenge for linguistic theory. We examine the situation from two different angles. We identify potential explanations for the lack of evidence of regular sound change, reasoning from the nature of synchronic Australian phonologies; and we emphasise how this unusual characteristic of Australian languages may demand new methods of evaluating evidence for diachronic relatedness, and new thinking about the nature of intergenerational transmission. We refer the reader also to Bowern (this volume) for additional viewpoints from which the Australian conundrum can be approached.

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“…The table is laid out in a manner often employed by phonologists to quickly give an overview of interacting processes. The original data stems from Hale (1973), and I follow analyses by Kenstowicz and Kisseberth (1979); Hayes (2011);Round (2011). Due to the rich interaction of word-final deletion rules, this is a commonly cited data set that has been a target of many analyses, all of which illustrate the difficulty of marshaling a complex set of phonological alternations.…”

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“…The original stems from Hale (1973), and we follow analby Kenstowicz and Kisseberth (1979); Hayes ); Round (2011). Due to the rich interaction rd-final deletion rules, this is a widely used set that has been a target of many analyses, which illustrate the difficulty of marshaling able to be able to produce a rich representation such as the one in table 1 from either an underlying form (morphological information) or the surface form showing all the processes that the word undergoes step-by-step.…”

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Rewrite rule grammars with multitape automata

Hulden

2017

JLM

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The majority of computational implementations of phonological and morphophonological alternations rely on composing together individual finite state transducers that represent sound changes. Standard composition algorithms do not maintain the intermediate representations between the ultimate input and output forms. These intermediate strings, however, can be very helpful for various tasks: enriching information (indispensable for models of historical linguistics), providing new avenues to debugging complex grammars, and offering explicit alignment information between morphemes, sound segments, and tags. This paper describes a multitape automaton approach to creating full models of sequences of sound alternation that implement phonological and morphological grammars. A model and a practical implementation of multitape automata is provided together with a multitape composition algorithm tailored to the representation used in this paper. Practical use cases of the approach are illustrated through two common examples: a phonological example of a complex rewrite rule grammar where multiple rules interact and a diachronic example of modeling sound change over time.

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Word Final Phonology in Lardil: Implications of an Expanded Data Set

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Fission, fusion and syncretism

Fission, fusion and syncretism

Where have all the sound changes gone? Examining the scarcity of evidence for regular sound change in Australian languages

Rewrite rule grammars with multitape automata

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