PHY121 - Comparative Phonology
Channel: The Virtual Linguistics Campus
Date: 2012-07-17

This E-Lecture, which is an integral part of the VLC Language Typology class, discusses the main principles of classifying languages phonologically. Jürgen Handke shows how the sound inventories of the world's languages can be systematically compared and how suprasegmental phonological aspects, such as tone and rhythm can be used as additional typological parameters.