Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries:
  • What is evolutionary phonology?
  • Evolution in language and elsewhere
  • Explanation in phonology: a brief history of ideas
  • Sound Patterns:
  • Laryngeal features
  • Place features
  • Other common sound patterns
  • The evolution of geminates
  • Some uncommon sound patterns
  • Implications:
  • Synchronic phonology
  • Diachronic phonology
  • Beyond phonology.