Lalo dialects across time and space: subgrouping, dialectometry, and intelligibility
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Title: | Lalo dialects across time and space: subgrouping, dialectometry, and intelligibility |
Author(s): | Yang, Cathryn |
Keywords: | Loloish languages – China – Yunnan Sheng Historical linguisSociolinguistics – China – Yunnan Shengics – China – Yunnan Sheng. Yunnan Sheng (China) – Languages. |
Date published: | 2015 |
Publisher: | Canberra, ACT : Asia-Pacific Linguistics, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University |
Series/Report no.: | Asia-Pacific Linguistics: A-PL 22 |
Description: | This volume is the first work to systematically investigate the diachronic and synchronic
relationships between regional varieties of Lalo, a Ngwi (Loloish) language cluster spoken in
western Yunnan, China. The empirical basis for the research is linguistic data, as well as
intelligibility tests and sociolinguistic interviews on contact, dialect perceptions, and
ethnolinguistic vitality from nineteen Lalo-speaking villages. The volume uses these data to
present a phonological and lexical reconstruction of Proto-Lalo, as well as a phylogenetic
subgrouping of the different Lalo varieties. As a complement to this a synchronic
classification of Lalo varieties according to phonetic distance, intelligibility, and speaker
perceptions is also given. This combination of methodologies and results enable an integrated
synchronic and diachronic depiction of Lalo dialect diversity |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/95391 |
ISBN: | 9781922185242 (ebook) |
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