David R. Mortensen
List of John Benjamins publications for which David R. Mortensen plays a role.
Articles
2023 Large-scale computerized forward reconstruction yields new perspectives in French diachronic phonology Diachronica 40:2, pp. 238–285 | Article
Traditionally, historical phonologists have relied on tedious manual derivations to sequence the sound changes that have shaped the phonological evolution of languages. However, humans are prone to errors, and cannot track thousands of parallel derivations in any efficient manner. We demonstrate… read more
2021 East Tusom: A phonetic and phonological sketch of a largely undocumented Tangkhulic language Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 44:2, pp. 183–208 | Article
East Tusom is a Tibeto-Burman language of Manipur, India, belonging to the Tangkhulic group. While it shares some innovations with the other Tangkhulic languages, it differs markedly from “Standard Tangkhul” (which is based on the speech of Ukhrul town). Past documentation is limited to a small… read more
2012 The emergence of obstruents after high vowels Diachronica 29:4, pp. 434–470 | Article
While a few cases of the emergence of obstruents after high vowels are found in the literature (Burling 1966, 1967, Blust 1994), no attempt has been made to comprehensively collect instances of this sound change or give them a unified explanation. This paper attempts to resolve this gap in the… read more