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Specializations => Phonetics and Phonology => Topic started by: Tragedia2 on November 20, 2016, 08:13:31 AM

Title: what is phonological typology
Post by: Tragedia2 on November 20, 2016, 08:13:31 AM

Can someone explain what phonological typology is and give examples? Thanks!

Title: Re: what is phonological typology
Post by: Daniel on November 20, 2016, 11:10:55 AM

Typology is generally just comparative linguistics, and more literally about finding types/patterns across languages.

So phonological typology would include things like comparing how many and which vowels are found in different languages, and also finding correlations. For example, do languages tend to have any particular vowels? (Yes, the cardinal vowels.) And so forth, including, of course, various much more specific questions.

Title: Re: what is phonological typology
Post by: Tragedia2 on November 20, 2016, 11:40:22 AM

Can you please explain it as an academic essay formally with more examples? Thanks!

Title: Re: what is phonological typology
Post by: Daniel on November 20, 2016, 03:07:03 PM

Write your homework for you? Not a chance.

If you have specific questions and want to discuss linguistics, this is the place for you. If not, you should instead use your library's website to find relevant articles and start writing...

Title: Re: what is phonological typology
Post by: Daniel on November 21, 2016, 12:41:49 AM

If you or someone else who comes along to this thread is looking for a way to do some research on your own about correlations between, for example, phoneme inventories, you can try this useful tool here:
http://wals.info/

Title: Re: what is phonological typology
Post by: Tragedia2 on November 21, 2016, 03:55:08 AM

Thanks for the examples then!!! I should be able tO do the rest on my own : I have got the definition from here : http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/phonlab/documents/2014/Hyman_Typologyand I have got the examples thanks to you !!