Expansion by migration and diffusion by contact is a source to the global diversity of linguistic nominal categorization systems

M Allassonnière-Tang, O Lundgren… - Humanities and Social …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Languages of diverse structures and different families tend to share common patterns if they
are spoken in geographic proximity. This convergence is often explained by horizontal …

Operationalizing borrowability: Phonological segments as a case study

S Moran, E Eisen, D Nikolaev, E Grossman - Language, 2024‏ - muse.jhu.edu
This study provides two mathematical formalizations of borrowability. These
operationalizations allow us to quantitatively evaluate the borrowability of phonological …

[HTML][HTML] Talking about temperature and social thermoregulation in the languages of the world

M Koptjevskaja-Tamm, D Nikolaev - International Review of Social …, 2021‏ - rips-irsp.com
The last decade saw rapid growth of the body of work devoted to relations between social
thermoregulation and various other domains, with a particular focus on the connection …

Phonotacticon: a cross-linguistic phonotactic database

I Joo, YY Hsu - Linguistic Typology, 2024‏ - degruyter.com
Phonotacticon is a cross-linguistic database that contains syllabic phonotactic information
about spoken lects (linguistic varieties), including the possible forms of the onset, nucleus …

Why the search for rarities should take phonology seriously

P Iosad - Rarities in phonetics and phonology: Evolutionary …, 2023‏ - research.ed.ac.uk
What is a phonological rarity? Answering this question requires both a clear understanding
of what counts as 'a phonological phenomenon', and a determination of baseline …

[PDF][PDF] Phonological Europeanisms

P Iosad, D Nikolaev - Europe, 2024‏ - academia.edu
The subject of this chapter is areality in phonological patterns. Our understanding of what
counts as a phonological pattern is quite broad (cf. van der Hulst 2017). It includes the size …

Bootstrap co-occurrence networks of consonants and the Basic Consonant Inventory

D Nikolaev - Linguistic Typology, 2023‏ - degruyter.com
It has been recently shown by Nikolaev and Grossman that it is possible to provide a fine-
grained typological analysis of consonant inventories of the world's languages by …

Detecting linguistic variation with geographic sampling

E Koile, G Moroz - Journal of Linguistic Geography, 2024‏ - cambridge.org
Geolectal variation is often present in settings where one language is spoken across a vast
geographic area. This can be found in phonological, morphosyntactic, and lexical features …

Feature systems, inventory structures, and phonological classes

SF Wang - 2020‏ - search.proquest.com
This dissertation examines the regularities of inventory structures in human languages and
phonological classes that describe distributional generalizations in the lexicon. The …