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A multifaceted approach to understanding unexpected sound change. The bilabial trills of Vanuatu’s Malekula Island

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This paper demonstrates that unexpected sound changes are best explained by an approach that accounts for different motivations: phonetic, structural and social. Here, we focus on a multifaceted investigation of the crosslinguistically uncommon bilabial trills to show the complex interaction between different drivers of sound change. In this paper, we highlight and examine the prenasalized voic...
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2023-02-07
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Vanuatu
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Journal article
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John Benjamins Publishing
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