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SUMMARY:How (not) to do (areal) phonological typology - Pavel Iosad (Unive
 rsity of Edinburgh)
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CONTACT:Tim Laméris
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 CT*\n\nWhat is the role of phonological patterns in establishing linguisti
 c areality? This question presents something of a paradox: although some o
 f the earliest work in areal linguistics\, notably the contributions by Ro
 man Jakobson\, very much focused on phonology\, sound patterns do not play
  a prominent role in many well-established (or at least much-discussed) li
 nguistic areas. As linguistic typology moves from a focus on classifying l
 anguages to questions of ‘what’s where why’\, there is now a real op
 portunity to reevaluate areal phonological patterns\, especially with the 
 use of large typological databases.\n\nIn this talk I argue that while thi
 s task is definitely worthwhile\, given some real recent advances in the f
 ield\, it needs to be more clearly embedded in phonological theory. I cons
 ider some pitfalls related to the construction of databases centred on pho
 neme inventories\, focusing in particular on cross-linguistics differences
  in the structure and implementation of laryngeal contrasts. I also offer 
 a different approach that might allow phonological typology to be more cle
 arly embedded in the diachronic dimension of typology\, by way of a discus
 sion of the phenomenon of shared sound changes as a way of probing areal d
 evelopments in phonology.\n
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