Prosodic tautomorphemicity in Sino-Tibetan
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.
| Author: | Balthasar Bickel |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1160400 |
| URL: | http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~bickel/research/papers/Bickel2003Prosodic.pdf |
| Document Type: | Preprint |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 10.08.2010 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2003 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| SWD-Keyword: | Prosodie; Sinotibetische Sprachen; Wortlänge |
| HeBIS PPN: | 284806013 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Dialektologie/Sprachgeografie / Dialectology/Linguistic geography |
| Note: | 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 |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
