Consonant co-occurrence in stems across languages: automatic analysis and visualization of a phonotactic constraint

Authors:
Thomas Mayer;Christian Rohrdantz;Frans Plank;Peter Bak;Miriam Butt;Daniel A. Keim
Affiliations:
University of Konstanz, Germany;University of Konstanz, Germany;University of Konstanz, Germany;University of Konstanz, Germany;University of Konstanz, Germany;University of Konstanz, Germany
Venue:
NLPLING '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on NLP and Linguistics: Finding the Common Ground
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we explore the phenomenon of Similar Place Avoidance (SPA), according to which successive consonants within stems sharing the same place of articulation are avoided. This principle has recently been hypothesized as a universal tendency although evidence from only a few languages scattered across the world has been considered. Using methods taken from the field of Visual Analytics, which have demonstrably been shown to help with understanding complex interactions across large data sets, we investigated a large crosslinguistic lexical database (comprising data on more than 4,500 languages) and found that a universal tendency can indeed be maintained.