Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia
Edited by Maya Ravindranath Abtahian and Abigail C. Cohn
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7:2 (2021) v, 132 pp.
Abigail C. Cohn
List of John Benjamins publications for which Abigail C. Cohn plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2021 Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia: An introduction Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia, Ravindranath Abtahian, Maya and Abigail C. Cohn (eds.), pp. 83–94 | Introduction
2021 Jakarta Indonesian first-person singular pronouns: Form, function and variation Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia, Ravindranath Abtahian, Maya and Abigail C. Cohn (eds.), pp. 185–214 | Article
Jakarta Indonesian is a colloquial variety of Indonesian spoken primarily in Indonesia’s capital, where it was originally a contact variety between Betawi, the local variety of Malay, and Standard Indonesian. Like other varieties of Indonesian, Jakarta Indonesian is a language with a relatively… read more
2018 Chapter 16. The status of schwa in Indonesian: Evidence from a naturalistic corpus Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in honor of John B. Whitman, Nishiyama, Kunio, Hideki Kishimoto and Edith Aldridge (eds.), pp. 343–370 | Chapter
Cross-linguistically, the distribution of schwa is often different from other vowels. This is the case in Indonesian: While contrastive, schwa’s distribution is more restricted than the other vowels and the realization of schwa is variable. Most prior work on schwa in Indonesian has focused on… read more
2011 Features, segments, and the sources of phonological primitives Where Do Phonological Features Come From?: Cognitive, physical and developmental bases of distinctive speech categories, Clements, G. Nick and Rachid Ridouane (eds.), pp. 13–42 | Article
I review the role of distinctive features in early generative theory, focusing on their multifaceted role as defined by Chomsky Halle (1968) for capturing contrast, phonological patterns, and the phonetic realization of these patterns. Based on evidence from these multiple aspects of phonological… read more