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Sounding things out: using non-standard spelling as phonological evidence

In Memoriam: Margaret Laing (1953-2023) For most budding linguists, one of the first steps in the discipline is a certain amount of unlearning. Among the many myths and deep-seated …

‘Nice’ palatals and ‘nasty’ dentals: Affect marking and the structure of Mapudungun coronal consonants

The South American language Mapudungun (arn) has a fairly dense inventory of contrast- ive coronal consonants, including stops/affricates, fricatives, nasals and laterals, across …

Autenticidad lingüística en el *dugulun* (diálogo) y el *coyaghtun* (parlamento) contenidos en el Arte de la lengua general del reyno del Chile

Mapudungun coronal fricatives --- Affect, change, stability and the contrastive hierarchy

Benjamín Molineaux

• Aug 4, 2022 • 1 min read

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The phonological word in polysynthetic languages: Evidence from stress

How to [PLACE] fricatives in the Corpus of Historical Mapudungun

Minority, non-European languages — such as indigenous American ones — are critically underrepresented in the literature on historical phonology and sound change. Even where they …

El Sermón en Lengua de Chile en el Corpus Histórico del Mapudungun: De texto colonial a texto digital

Para el mundo mapuche de 1621, año en que se publicó el texto que nos convoca, la escritura era una tecnología nueva, ajena a su modo de vida tradicional, donde tanto kimün (saber) …

The phonological word in polysynthetic languages: Evidence from Mapudungun stress

Variation and preservation of Mapudungun dental fricatives

Despite being common amongst the languages of Europe, dental fricatives are relatively rare phonemes crosslinguistically. Voiced forms show up in only 5% of the phonemic …

Building historical corpora: From morphological tagging to grapho-phonological parsing

Orthographic variation, which is endemic to non-standard spelling systems, is seen by many researchers as a fatal stumbling block for building morpho-syntactically parsed …