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  • LAN volume 79 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 79 / Issue 2 / June 2003
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. b1-b12
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  • LAN volume 79 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 79 / Issue 2 / June 2003
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. f1-f3
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  • The Indeterminacy/Attestation Model of Metathesis

  • Elizabeth Hume
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 80 / Issue 2 / June 2004
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    19 February 2026, pp. 203-237

  • This paper addresses three key observations relating to crosslinguistic patterns of metathesis. First, the order of sounds resulting from metathesis can differ from language to language such that a similar combination of sounds can be realized in one order in one language, but in the reverse order in another language. Second, for some sound combinations, only one order is commonly attested as the result of metathesis, while for other combinations, either order can be observed. Third, the acoustic/auditory cues to the identification of the sequence resulting from metathesis are often better than those of the expected, yet nonoccurring, order. These patterns receive a straightforward explanation when we consider the phonetic nature of the sounds involved as well as the speaker/hearer's knowledge of native sound patterns and their frequency of occurrence. Neither factor alone is sufficient to provide a predictive account of metathesis. This study shows, however, that by taking into account both factors, we are able to understand why certain sound combinations tend to undergo metathesis, why others are common results of metathesis, why patterns of metathesis differ across languages, and, importantly, why metathesis occurs in the first place.

  • Structural Phylogeny in Historical Linguistics: Methodological Explorations Applied in Island Melanesia

  • Michael Dunn, Stephen C. Levinson, Eva Lindström, Ger Reesink, Angela Terrill
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    Language / Volume 84 / Issue 4 / December 2008
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    19 February 2026, pp. 710-759

  • Using various methods derived from evolutionary biology, including maximum parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetic analysis, we tackle the question of the relationships among a group of Papuan isolate languages that have hitherto resisted accepted attempts at demonstration of interrelatedness. Instead of using existing vocabulary-based methods, which cannot be applied to these languages due to the paucity of shared lexemes, we created a database of STRUCTURAL FEATURES—abstract phonological and grammatical features apart from their form. The methods are first tested on the closely related Oceanic languages spoken in the same region as the Papuan languages in question. We find that using biological methods on structural features can recapitulate the results of the comparative method tree for the Oceanic languages, thus showing that structural features can be a valid way of extracting linguistic history. Application of the same methods to the otherwise unrelatable Papuan languages is therefore likely to be similarly valid. Because languages that have been in contact for protracted periods may also converge, we outline additional methods for distinguishing convergence from inherited relatedness.

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