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Mixtec Sound Change Database 2.0: Integrating Tone Change Cover

Mixtec Sound Change Database 2.0: Integrating Tone Change

By: Sandra Auderset  
Open Access
|Jun 2025

Abstract

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.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.322 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: Mar 7, 2025
Accepted on: Apr 19, 2025
Published on: Jun 11, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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