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Studies in the Historical Phonology of Asian Languages

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1991
ISBN
9027235740, 9789027235749
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (22968543 bytes)
Series
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 77
Pages
257\258
Time added
2014-05-27 12:26:51

Description

This volume owes its genesis to a series of lectures on various aspects of the historical phonology of Asian languages, sponsored by the Asian Linguistics Colloquium of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature of the University of Washington, in Seattle. The volume includes papers on both theoretical and applied aspects of Asian linguistics, and topics examined include vowel harmony, dialect variation and “inherent variability”, historical reconstruction based on written records, historical reconstruction based on the comparative method, accentology, and language standardization. While some of the papers are comparative in nature, others deal with effects of language contact on phonological systems. Languages and language families dealt with are Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Altaic, Chinese, Uralic, Korean, and Tai.

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