Pub Date : 2022-08-23DOI: 10.1163/19552629-14030002
Manuele Bandeira, Gabriel Antunes de Araujo, Tom Finbow
Four Portuguese-based Creoles are spoken on the islands in the Gulf of Guinea: Santome, Angolar, Lung’Ie, and Fa d’Ambô. These languages are descendants of the Portuguese-based Gulf of Guinea Proto-Creole, which emerged at the beginning of the sixteenth century on São Tomé Island. Based on Bandeira (2017), we discuss the development of liquid consonants in Santome, Lung’Ie, Angolar and Fa d’Ambô using data from the reconstruction, and we examine the developments in the daughter-languages of the proto-phonemes *r and *l that led to the synchronic systems and the present configurations in the daughter languages, since the liquid consonants evolved differently from the proto-creole. We show that the relation between long vowels and liquid consonants, both in coda and in complex onsets, can be better understood if we consider the modern lexical items in these four languages as continuations of proto-forms, with characteristic modifications in each language governed by regular processes.
几内亚湾的岛屿上有四种以葡萄牙语为基础的克里奥尔语:Santome, Angolar, Lung 'Ie和Fa ' d 'Ambô。这些语言是以葡萄牙语为基础的几内亚湾原始克里奥尔语的后裔，该语言于16世纪初出现在s o tom岛上。基于Bandeira(2017)，我们使用重建数据讨论了Santome、Lung 'Ie、Angolar和Fa d 'Ambô中液体辅音的发展，并研究了原音素*r和*l在子语言中的发展，这些发展导致了子语言的共时系统和当前配置，因为液体辅音的演变与原克里奥尔语不同。我们表明，如果我们将这四种语言中的现代词汇项目视为原始形式的延续，并在每种语言中由规则过程控制的特征修改，则可以更好地理解长元音和液态辅音之间的关系，无论是在结尾还是在复杂的开头。
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Pub Date : 2021-12-14DOI: 10.1163/19552629-14020005
Kelsie E. Pattillo
Within recent years, quantitative cross-linguistic research has shown that body parts are one of the least borrowed semantic fields (Tadmor and Haspelmath, 2009a; 2009b; Tadmor, 2009). With body parts showing many similarities to closed classes, it is simple to assume there is little motivation for a language to borrow body part terms into its lexicon. Yet, despite its lower percentage of borrowings cross-linguistically, some languages employ much higher percentages of borrowings for naming the body. The motivations behind such borrowings across languages remain unexplored but can largely be explained by social factors. As Thomason and Kaufman (1988) and Thomason (2008) claim, social factors generally trump linguistic factors as predictors of contact-induced change. This study first discusses proposed inhibitions to lexical borrowing and then examines cases of body part loanwords from various languages showing how they fit into social patterns motivating such borrowings.
近年来，定量的跨语言研究表明，身体部位是最少借用的语义场之一(Tadmor and Haspelmath, 2009a;2009 b;Tadmor, 2009)。由于身体部位与封闭类有许多相似之处，很容易认为一种语言没有什么动机将身体部位术语借用到它的词汇中。然而，尽管跨语言借用的比例较低，但有些语言在命名身体时使用的借用比例要高得多。这种跨语言借用背后的动机尚不清楚，但在很大程度上可以用社会因素来解释。正如Thomason和Kaufman(1988)以及Thomason(2008)所声称的那样，社会因素通常胜过语言因素，成为接触诱发变化的预测因素。本研究首先讨论了对词汇借用的限制，然后研究了来自各种语言的身体部位外来词的案例，展示了它们如何适应激发这种借用的社会模式。
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Pub Date : 2021-12-14DOI: 10.1163/19552629-14020003
T. Vorobyeva, Aurora Bel
This study focuses on the issue of language proficiency attainment among young heritage speakers of Russian living in Spain and examines factors that have been claimed to promote heritage language proficiency, namely, age, gender, age of onset to L2, quantity of exposure and family language use. A group of 30 Russian-Spanish-Catalan trilingual children aged 7–11 participated in the study. In order to measure heritage language proficiency (L1 Russian), oral narratives were elicited. The results demonstrated a significant relationship between L1 proficiency and three sociolinguistic variables (age of onset to L2, quantity of exposure and family language use). Additionally, the multiply regression model demonstrated that the only significant variable affecting language proficiency was family language use and it accounted only for 33% of the variation of children’s language proficiency. The study raises the question about what are the other, yet unknown factors, which can affect heritage language proficiency.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-14DOI: 10.1163/19552629-14020008-03
Kathrin Feindt
{"title":"Cecelia Cutler and Unn Røyneland (eds.), 2018. Multilingual Youth Practices in Computer Mediated Communication","authors":"Kathrin Feindt","doi":"10.1163/19552629-14020008-03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/19552629-14020008-03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43304,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Contact","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74325423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-14DOI: 10.1163/19552629-14020008-02
Eliane Lorenz
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Pub Date : 2021-12-14DOI: 10.1163/19552629-14020008
Peter Bakker
{"title":"Joanna Nolan. The Elusive case of Lingua Franca. Fact and Fiction","authors":"Peter Bakker","doi":"10.1163/19552629-14020008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/19552629-14020008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43304,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Contact","volume":"345 1","pages":"477-482"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138517492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-14DOI: 10.1163/19552629-14020009
Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Natalia Gurian, S. Karpenko
The main aim of this study is to examine what kind of phonological system emerges because of language contact wherein adult speakers of L1 (Chinese) attempt to speak L2 (Russian) without any previous instruction in L2. The main findings of this study are as follows: a) The speakers of L1 largely adopt the phonetic inventory and phonotactics of L2 and b) the only underlying (distinctive) features in the emerging phonological system are those of place of articulation while voicing plays no distinctive role in the emerging phonological system of Chinese speakers. Moreover, the speakers of L1 faithfully replicate the stress system of L2, even though L1 (Chinese) is a tonal language and L2, Russian, is a stress language. The most important finding of this study is that speakers of L1 discern the entity ‘word’ in L2. The emerging phonological system is geared towards assuring the identifiability of words in L2 rather than towards consistency of phonological rules.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-14DOI: 10.1163/19552629-14020004
T. Maisak
Following Stilo’s (2018) study of small-inventory classifier systems in a number of Indo-European, Turkic, Kartvelian and Semitic languages of the Araxes-Iran Linguistic Area, the paper presents an account of numeral classifiers in Udi, a Nakh-Daghestanian (Lezgic) language spoken in northern Azerbaijan. Being a peripheral member of the linguistic area in question, Udi possesses an even more reduced version of a small-classifier system, comprising one optional classifier dänä (Iranian borrowing, most likely via Azerbaijani) used with both human and inanimate nouns. A dedicated classifier for humans is lacking, although there is a word tan (also of Iranian origin) only used after numerals or quantifiers, but predominantly as a noun phrase head. The behaviour of dänä and tan is scrutinized, according to a set of parameters, in both spoken and written textual corpora of the Nizh dialect of Udi. Drawing in the data from the related Nakh-Daghestanian languages, the paper shows that among the languages of the family Udi may be unique in possessing classifiers (albeit as a result of contact), Khinalug possibly being the only other exception.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-14DOI: 10.1163/19552629-14020007
Sara Pacchiarotti, K. Bostoen
In this article, we present a qualitative and quantitative comparative account of Final Vowel Loss (fvl) in the Bantu languages of the Lower Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We argue that this diachronic sound shift rose relatively late in Bantu language history as a contact-induced change and affected adjacent West-Coastal and Central-Western Bantu languages belonging to different phylogenetic clusters. We account for its emergence and spread by resorting to two successive processes of language contact: (1) substrate influence from extinct hunter-gatherer languages in the center of innovation consisting of Bantu B80 languages, and (2) dialectal diffusion towards certain peripheral Bantu B70, C80, H40 and L10 languages.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-14DOI: 10.1163/19552629-14020011
Eliane Lorenz
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