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Studies in the Historical Phonology of Asian Languages

Studies in the Historical Phonology of Asian Languages PDF Author: William G. Boltz
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277915
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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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.