Kabak, Bariş 2004

Kabak, Bariş. 2004. Acquiring phonology is not acquiring inventories but contrasts: The loss of Turkic and Korean primary long vowels. Linguistic Typology 8(3). 351-368. doi: 10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.351. Walter de Gruyter.

@article{183291,
  author     = {Kabak, Bariş},
  journal    = {Linguistic Typology},
  number     = {3},
  pages      = {351-368},
  publisher  = {Walter de Gruyter},
  title      = {Acquiring phonology is not acquiring inventories but contrasts: The loss of Turkic and Korean primary long vowels},
  url        = {http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lity.2004.8.issue-3/lity.2004.8.3.351/lity.2004.8.3.351.xml},
  volume     = {8},
  year       = {2004},
  abstract   = {Evaluating Trudgill's correlation of phoneme inventory size with social factors, this paper highlights the role of phonological structure in the acquisition of phonological contrast, with particular reference to Turkic and Korean vowel inventories. Factors such as social dominance, isolation, and community size are shown not to provide plausible explanations for the loss of primary long vowels in most Turkic languages and their preservation in a few others, nor for the neutralization which long and short vowels currently undergo in Korean. It is suggested that such changes in phoneme inventories can be better understood as a result of phonetic and phonological processes involving the contrastive features and phonological contexts that define the phonemes in question. Processes referring to vowel length in Turkic and Korean are argued to have obscured its contrastive status in the organization of phonological knowledge by the speakers of these languages.},
  doi        = {10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.351},
  hhtype     = {phonology (computerized assignment from "phonology")},
  inlg       = {English [eng]},
  issn       = {1430-0532},
  keywords   = {acquisition, areal linguistics, Korean, language contact, phoneme inventories, Turkic, vowel quantity},
  lgcode     = {Korean [kor] (computerized assignment from "korean")},
  src        = {degruyter, zurich},
  zurichcode = {Turkic [1], Korean [KKN]}
}