TY  - INPR
A1  - Bickel, Balthasar
T1  - Prosodic tautomorphemicity in Sino-Tibetan
N2  - Sino-Tibetan is a prime example of how strongly a language family can typologically diversify under the pressure of areal spread features (Matisoff 1991, 1999). One of the manifestation of this is the average length of prosodic words. In Southeast Asia, prosodic words tend to average on one or one-and-a-half syllables. In the Himalayas, by contrast, it is not uncommon to encounter prosodic words containing five to ten syllables. The following pair of examples illustrates this.
KW  - Sinotibetische Sprachen
KW  - Wortlänge
KW  - Prosodie
Y1  - 2003
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/15114
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1160400
UR  - http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~bickel/research/papers/Bickel2003Prosodic.pdf
N1  - To appear in: David Bradley, Randy J. LaPolla, Graham Thurgood [eds.]: Language variation : papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and Indospehere in honour of James A. Matisoff. - Canberra : Australian National Univ., Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2003. - Pacific Linguistics ; 555
ER  -