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 BickelORCiDGND |
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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): | 2010/08/10 |
Year of first Publication: | 2003 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2010/08/10 |
GND Keyword: | Sinotibetische Sprachen; Wortlänge; Prosodie |
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 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 284806013 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Dialektologie/Sprachgeografie / Dialectology/Linguistic geography |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |