Mixtec Sound Change Database 2.0: Integrating Tone Change

This paper introduces and describes the second edition of the Mixtec Sound Change Database (Auderset & Campbell, 2024), which now includes a module on tone change. Tone change is an under-researched topic in historical linguistics and is virtually absent from cross-linguistic databases. The Mixt...

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Main Author: Sandra Auderset
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Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2025-06-01
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description This paper introduces and describes the second edition of the Mixtec Sound Change Database (Auderset & Campbell, 2024), which now includes a module on tone change. Tone change is an under-researched topic in historical linguistics and is virtually absent from cross-linguistic databases. The Mixtec languages from southern Mexico provide an ideal starting point for studies in this area, as they are all tonal and tone can be reconstructed to the proto-language. This updated version of the database thus serves as a model for including tonal data in synchronic and diachronic studies of languages and language families where this feature is present. This will support efforts towards a better understanding of suprasegmental change in Mixtec and beyond.
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spelling doaj-art-d379fa3aed9b4dfd9958cc09365540d02025-08-20T02:41:07ZengUbiquity PressJournal of Open Humanities Data2059-481X2025-06-0111373710.5334/johd.322322Mixtec Sound Change Database 2.0: Integrating Tone ChangeSandra Auderset0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4673-4814Department of Linguistics, University of Bern, BernThis paper introduces and describes the second edition of the Mixtec Sound Change Database (Auderset & Campbell, 2024), which now includes a module on tone change. Tone change is an under-researched topic in historical linguistics and is virtually absent from cross-linguistic databases. The Mixtec languages from southern Mexico provide an ideal starting point for studies in this area, as they are all tonal and tone can be reconstructed to the proto-language. This updated version of the database thus serves as a model for including tonal data in synchronic and diachronic studies of languages and language families where this feature is present. This will support efforts towards a better understanding of suprasegmental change in Mixtec and beyond.https://account.openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/index.php/up-j-johd/article/view/322tone changesound changemixteccomparative method
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title Mixtec Sound Change Database 2.0: Integrating Tone Change
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title_fullStr Mixtec Sound Change Database 2.0: Integrating Tone Change
title_full_unstemmed Mixtec Sound Change Database 2.0: Integrating Tone Change
title_short Mixtec Sound Change Database 2.0: Integrating Tone Change
title_sort mixtec sound change database 2 0 integrating tone change
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