28.1424, Qs: Seeking Contributions to The Great Language Muster

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1424. Tue Mar 21 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1424, Qs: Seeking Contributions to The Great Language Muster

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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:48:41
From: Evan DeFrancesco [evan.defrancesco.16 at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: Seeking Contributions to The Great Language Muster

 
Andrew Nevins of University College London is revisiting Roman Jakobson's
question of 'Why ''mama'' and ''papa''.'  That is, why do languages across the
world exhibit similar sound patterns for the maternal and paternal kinship
terms.  Jakobson also posed several additional questions: What is the
frequency of kinship terms that use nasal or oral consonants? How often do
both kinship terms contain a labial or dental sound? What combinations of
sounds are allowed in a kinship term pair? What kind of patterns of sounds
exist for relations beyond just the mother and father? The opportunity for
more research was - and is - rife and rich.

The scope of this project is huge. We want to collect data to match all 500+
of Murdock's original sample languages, but we can't do it all on our own. We
need your help.

For more information and to participate, please visit
https://sites.google.com/view/thegreatlanguagemuster/home
 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Discipline of Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Language Documentation
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Typology



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