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On the Origin of Internal Structure of Word Forms

MacNeilage, Peter F., Davis, Barbara L.·2000·Science
DOI 10.1126/science.288.5465.527
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This study shows that a corpus of proto-word forms shares four sequential sound patterns with words of modern languages and the first words of infants. Three of the patterns involve intrasyllabic consonant-vowel (CV) co-occurrence: labial (lip) consonants with central vowels, coronal (tongue front) consonants with front vowels, and dorsal (tongue back) consonants with back vowels. The fourth pattern is an intersyllabic preference for initiating words with a labial consonant–vowel–coronal consonant sequence (LC). The CV effects may be primarily biomechanically motivated. The LC effect may be self-organizational, with multivariate causality. The findings support the hypothesis that these four patterns were basic to the origin of words.

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Authors
MacNeilage, P. F., & Davis, B. L.
Venue
Science
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Published
2000-04-21
Volume
288
Issue
5465
Pages
527-531
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
DOI
10.1126/science.288.5465.527
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W2094016999
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355
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journal article
Language
en
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