A Cautionary Tale: Linguists are a powerful force of change (for phoneme inventories at least)
I’ve been reading through an earlier draft of my dissertation and noticed a few paragraphs that were omitted due to word length. Despite not making the final cut, it serves as nice reminder about where our data is coming from: that is, when we dive into WALS or UPSID, take a particular inventory and look … Continue reading “A Cautionary Tale: Linguists are a powerful force of change (for phoneme inventories at least)”