• from a proto-language, i.e. a common ancestor language. That is, an areal feature is contrasted with lingual-genealogically determined similarity within...
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  • result of language convergence are called areal features. In situations with many languages in contact and a variety of areal features, linguists may use...
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  • Marc (2017). "Southeast Asian Tone in Areal Perspective". In Raymond Hickey (ed.). The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics. Cambridge Handbooks in Language...
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    that mutation of ⟨a⟩ in final open syllable is an areal feature. Specifically, it is an areal feature of Western Austronesia. Uri Tadmor classify those...
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  • sonorants may reflect an areal feature rather than an inherent feature common to the sounds in question. Since none of the three types are very common, languages...
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  • initialisation, CODA talk, TDD conversation, mouthing and contact signing. Areal feature Language transfer Code-switching Pidgin Creole language Lingua franca...
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    the script of Old Hebrew from Old Aramaic and Phoenician. Areal feature – Linguistic feature arising through language contact rather than common descent...
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  • [pʰə̥ˈkj̊uːliɚ] and potato [pʰə̥ˈtʰeɪ̯ɾoʊ̯]. Voiceless vowels are also an areal feature in languages of the American Southwest (like Hopi and Keres),...
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  • called morphosemantic features. Areal feature Distinctive feature Featural writing system Markedness Semantic feature Kibort, Anna & Corbett, Greville...
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    disappearance of the Southeast Aral in 2008, Vozrozhdeniya Island effectively no longer exists as a distinct geographical feature. The area is now shared by...
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  • Portuguese painter, António Areal's daughter Area (disambiguation) Areal density (computer storage) Areal feature in linguistics Areal velocity, a term from...
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  • Lexical affixes are relatively rare and are used in Wakashan, Salishan, and Chimakuan languages — the presence of these is an areal feature of the Pacific...
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  • an areal feature of the circum-Saharan zone (Africa north of the equator plus the Arabian Peninsula). It is not known how old this areal feature is,...
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  • India. The presence of [v] and absence of [w], is a very distinctive areal feature of European languages and those of adjacent areas of Siberia and Central...
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  • "do" as an area feature of what the scholars call "East Africa". Wu Tong has examined prenominal relative clauses as an areal feature in the Ethiopian...
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  • contribute to transfer errors in language learning.[citation needed] An areal feature of some European languages is that pronoun dropping is not, or seldom...
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  • that refers to reduplication as a widespread areal feature in the languages of South Asia. Echo words are characterized by reduplication of a complete...
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  • pronounced [k]) have a consonant that is very similar. For instance, an areal feature of the Pacific Northwest coast is that historical *k has become palatalized...
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  • The result is that in Modern Hebrew, דיבוב dibúv means "dubbing". Areal feature Convergent evolution Equivalence Etymological fallacy False etymology...
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    demonstrated to be related to them genealogically (the similarities may be an areal feature). Tuu Taa ǃXoon (4200 speakers. A dialect cluster.) Lower Nossob (Two...
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  • consonant - Antonym - Aorist - Applied linguistics - Approximant - Areal feature - Article - Articulatory gestures - Articulatory phonetics - Aspect...
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  • five, although quinary systems exist. To some extent this is also an areal feature of other South American languages; many form their numbers 6–9 as "five...
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  • for its lack of nasal sounds, such as [m], [n], or nasal vowels, an areal feature of Puget Sound. Quileute is polysynthetic and words can be quite long...
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  • postpositions). In Mesoamerica, the use of relational nouns constitutes an areal feature of the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area, including the Mayan languages,...
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    continuum. For example, the spirantisation of Slavic /g/ to /h/ is an areal feature shared by the Czech-Slovak group with both Ukrainian and Sorbian (but...
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  • pharyngeal harmony) involving both vowels and consonants that is an areal feature of this region of North America, shared by other Interior Salishan and...
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    syllables are regularly lost or weakened. Since the same pattern occurs in the history of Etruscan, this must be assumed to be an areal feature. (By the...
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    an areal feature of the "circum-Saharan zone" (Africa north of the equator plus the Arabian Peninsula). It is not known how old this areal feature is...
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  • lack the only velar consonant. Other languages lack simple velars. An areal feature of the indigenous languages of the Americas of the coastal regions of...
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    glottalized (ejective) stops and affricates. This may constitute an areal feature of languages of the Caucasus. Voiceless consonants become voiced word-medially...
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