34.1042, Qs: Seeking Chain-shifts and splits/transphonologizations

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Subject: 34.1042, Qs: Seeking Chain-shifts and splits/transphonologizations

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From: Andrew Wedel [wedel at arizona.edu]
Subject: Seeking Chain-shifts and splits/transphonologizations


I'm looking for examples of diachronically recent (within the last few
centuries) changes to the system of phoneme contrasts in any
language/dialect, particularly those that maintain lexical contrasts -
examples of these are chain shifts in vowel or consonant systems, or
transphonologizations like development of tone in parallel with loss
of a voicing contrast as is happening in Korean. In order to analyze
these, I need a corresponding large word list, as one can extract from
a corpus. As a consequence, understudied languages currently without
these resources will have to wait.
I'm interested in phoneme mergers as well, so if you know a
language/dialect with a phoneme merger, let me know. I already have
data on English, German, Turkish, Korean, Hong Kong Cantonese, Dutch,
French, Spanish - but if you know of a less well-described change in
any of these languages/dialects that I might have missed, I'd be very
interested in that as well. To get an idea of my work with these
phenomena, see Wedel, Kaplan & Jackson, 2013, Cognition 128: 179-186.
Thank you to any who can help out with my search!

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology




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