%0 Journal Article
%A Rangelov, Tihomir
%A Walworth, Mary
%A Barbour, Julie
%+ COOL, Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
COOL, Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T A multifaceted approach to understanding unexpected sound change: the bilabial trills of Vanuatu’s Malekula Island : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-7AA6-2
%R 10.1075/dia.21051.ran
%7 2023-02-06
%D 2023
%8 06.02.2023
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X This paper demonstrates that unexpected sound changes are best explained<br>by an approach that accounts for different motivations: phonetic, structural<br>and social. Here, we focus on a multifaceted investigation of the cross-<br>linguistically uncommon bilabial trills to show the complex interaction<br>between different drivers of sound change. In this paper, we highlight and<br>examine the prenasalized voiced bilabial trill mʙ and plain voiceless bilabial<br>trill P [ʙ̥] found in a number of Oceanic languages spoken on Malekula<br>Island in Vanuatu. We offer a comparative-historical analysis, and we<br>identify the various forces that have led to the emergence and persistence of<br>mʙ and P in Malekula languages: the historical articulatory environments,<br>the particular make-up of the consonant inventories of these languages,<br>complementary sound changes and phonological processes, contact with<br>non-Austronesian languages, and in-group identity attachment.<br>Furthermore, we offer a hypothesis for the relative timing of these factors on<br>the historical pathway of Malekula’s bilabial trills.
%K bilabial trills, sound change, Vanuatu, Malekula, prenasalization,
Austronesian, Austronesian-Papuan contact, language and identity
%J Diachronica
%V 40
%N 3
%& 384
%P 384 - 432
%I John Benjamins Publishing
%C Amsterdam
%@ 1569-97140176-4225