{"pk":35056,"title":"Diachronic and areal aspects of Brokpa phonology","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The Tibetic language Brokpa exhibits a number of archaic properties regarding its phonology. However, one also finds some shared Tibetic innovations and features which likely arose due to contact with non-Tibetic languages. This article discusses selected features belonging to the three above-mentioned categories such as the retention of initial clusters of bilabial plosives and /r/, the reflexes of other selected initial clusters, correspondences of syllable-final Written Tibetan &lt;<span style=\"display:none;\"></span>b&gt;, &lt;<span style=\"display:none;\"></span>d&gt;, &lt;<span style=\"display:none;\"></span>g&gt; and &lt;<span style=\"display:none;\"></span>s&gt;, the lack of a voiced dental fricative /dz/ as well as the loss of voicing distinction of the syllable onsets as a starting point of tonogenesis.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Brokpa language"},{"word":"Tibetic languages"},{"word":"Language Contact"},{"word":"Historical phonology"},{"word":"tonogenesis"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7xw1r1sj","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sara","middle_name":"","last_name":"Rüfenacht","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universität Bern","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Sereina","middle_name":"","last_name":"Waldis","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universität Bern","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2020-02-01T15:08:06Z","date_accepted":"2020-02-01T15:08:06Z","date_published":"2020-07-31T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/himalayanlinguistics/article/35056/galley/26129/download/"}]}