Roslyn Burns
List of John Benjamins publications in which Roslyn Burns is involved.
Articles
2025 Balancing social determinism vs. sound change: The case of Fang Journal of Historical Linguistics 15:1, pp. 132–172 | Article
This paper investigates the relationship between social and phonetic motivations for language change in Fang (Bantoid). While previous research has proposed that innovations in Fang arose due to social need and lack phonetic motivation (Mve et al. 2019; Good, Di Carlo & Tschonghongei 2020), I… read more
2022 Persistent innovations and historical conspiracies as reanalysis and extension Diachronica 39:1, pp. 39–87 | Article
This article explores temporally extended innovations as a form of phonological reanalysis and extension. Polabian (West Slavic) exhibits multiple dissimilatory innovations that target the reflexes of Late Common Slavic (LCS) *v/w. In this paper, I propose that the outputs of syllable structure… read more
2021 Modeling gradient processes in Polabian vowel chain shifting and blocking Journal of Historical Linguistics 11:1, pp. 102–142 | Article
This paper presents an analysis of two interacting sound changes in the extinct West Slavic language Polabian. Polabian is known to have two types of vowel innovations: (i) the incorporation of acoustic properties from consonant secondary co-articulations (either palatalization or velarization)… read more