Qaqet is a non-Austronesian Baining language of Papua New Guinea, with very small phoneme inventory 16 consonants and four vowels, including the voiced stops /b d ɡ/. These are often phonetically realized as prenasalized [mb nd ŋɡ], this feature assumed to be result contact surrounding Oceanic languages. Our data consist isolated word recordings from six female speakers language. Using range ac...

Gender agreement between determiners and nouns, gender third-person clitics their referents, are notoriously difficult to acquire by bilingual speakers who lack them in first language, or one of languages. We present a study that explores the differences determiner noun antecedents doubled DPs among Shipibo-Spanish speakers. The oral production data were elicited from 17 adult bilinguals using ...

Proving the existence of ancient language contacts is easy; proving the existence of ancient contact-induced language change is much more difficult, by comparison to analyses of modern contact situations. This paper surveys some ancient contacts and their effects on the languages. The main conclusion is that the historical methods used for analyzing better-documented contact situations can be a...

Abstract The influence of usage frequency, and particularly linguistic similarity on human behavior change in situations language contact are well documented linguistics literature. However, a theoretical framework capable unifying the various explanations, which usually couched either structuralist, sociolinguistic, or psycholinguistic parlance, is still lacking. In this introductory article w...