3. The lengthening of the first component of Lithuanian diphthongs in an areal perspective

Daugavet, Anna

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“…The neutral contour occurs in stressed syllables that are light, whereas falling (hl) and rising (lh) contours only occur in stressed syllables that are heavy. For instance, the heavy syllable /kɐl/ in the words /ˈkɐltɐs/ 'chisel' and /ˈkɐltɐs/ 'guilty' is phonologically different since in the word for 'chisel' there is a rising contour, whereas the one for 'guilty' shows a falling pattern: /ˈkɐľtɐs/ vs. /ˈkɐltɐs/3 (Dogil and Möhler, 1998;Dogil, 1999;Daugavet, 2015). Pitch contours are not contrastive in either Portuguese or Icelandic stressed syllables.…”

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Beyond Segment Inventories: Phonological Complexity Measures and Suprasegmental Variables in Contact Situations

Napoleão de Souza,

Sinnemäki

2023

J. Lang. Contact

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This article has three goals. First, it provides a broad cross-linguistic survey of phonological change in contact situations focusing on the suprasegmental domain. The term suprasegmental refers here to syllable structure, stress patterns, tonal patterns, and vowel and nasal harmony systems. Secondly, it assesses phonological change to suprasegmental variables whereby external influence causes an increase in complexity in the recipient language’s structure. Thirdly, using insights from the phonological typology literature, it provides a preliminary framework to evaluate suprasegmental phenomena, which can then serve as an additional tool to disentangle inheritance from contact-induced change. Data from 45 languages suggest that the suprasegmental domain provides fertile ground for inspecting contact-influenced increases in linguistic complexity. Overall, we argue that the data reviewed here highlight the relevance of phonological structure as a variable in studies of language contact, which have been mostly preoccupied with morphosyntactic variables.

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