| Budget Amount *help |
¥40,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥31,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥9,420,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥7,670,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,770,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥7,540,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,740,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥8,450,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,950,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥8,320,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,920,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project carried out the first large-scale, comprehensive survey of the phonological systems of the Khoisan languages. These languages are well known for their use of large sets of click phonemes, a typologically rare characteristic. They are also unique because the click phonemes carry a high functional load in the respective systems. All these languages have strikingly similar and highly skewed root phonotactics: all native roots follow one of only three templates, whereas the distribution of consonants is extremely skewed across the various slots of these templates. The project has made a contribution to phonological typology in providing empirical support for a range of earlier claims and speculations about these typologically rare systems.
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