The Oxford handbook of historical phonology / edited by Patrick Honeybone and Joseph Salmons.

This book presents a comprehensive and critical overview of historical phonology as it stands today. Research from every part of the field is examined from a variety of theoretical perspectives and drawing on data from a wide range of languages. The book begins by considering key current research qu...

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Other Authors: Honeybone, Patrick (Patrick George) (Editor), Salmons, Joe, 1956- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Series:Oxford handbooks in linguistics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction Key questions for historical phonology / Patrick Honeybone, Joseph Salmons
  • An Early history of historical phonology / Robert Murray
  • Structuralist historical phonology systems in sound change / Joseph Salmons, Patrick Honeybone
  • Phonological reconstruction / Anthony Fox
  • Establishing phonemic contrast in written sources / Donka Minlova
  • Interpreting diffuse orthographies and orthographic change / J. Marshall Unger
  • Interpreting alphabetic orthographies early Middle English spelling / Roger Lass
  • The role of typology in historical phonology / Martin Kummel
  • Computational and quantitative approaches to historical phonology / Brett Kessler
  • Simulation as an investigative tool in historical phonology / Andrew Wedel
  • Using corpora of recorded speech for historical phonology / Warren Maguire
  • Exploring chain shifts, mergers, near-mergers as changes in progress / Matthew J. Gordon
  • Basic types of phonological change / András Cser
  • Analogy and morphophonological change / David Fertig
  • Change in word prosody stress and quantity / Aditi Lahiri
  • Tonoexodus, tonogenesis, and tone change / Martha Ratliff
  • The role of prosodic templates in diachrony / Laura Catharine Smith, Adam Ussishkin
  • First language acquisition and phonological change / Paul Foulkes, Marilyn Vihman
  • How diachronic is synchronic grammar? Crazy rules, regularity, and naturalness / Tobias Scheer
  • An I-language approach to phonologization and lexification / Mark Hale, Madelyn Kissock, Charles Reiss
  • Lexical diffusion in historical phonology / Betty S. Phillips
  • Amphichronic explanation and the life cycle of phonological processes / Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero
  • Individuals, innovation, and change / Mark J. Jones
  • The role of experimental Investigation in the explanation of sound change / Alan C.L. Yu
  • Natural phonology and sound change / Patricia J. Donegan, Geoffrey S. Nathan
  • Preference laws in phonological change / Robert Mailhammer, David Restle, Theo Vennemann
  • Articulatory processing and frequency of use in sound change / Joan Bybee
  • Evolutionary phonology a holistic approach to sound change typology / Juliette Blevins
  • Rule-based generative historical phonology / B. Elan Dresher
  • Distinctive features, levels of representation, and historical phonology / Thomas C. Purnell, Eric Raimy
  • Historical sound change in optimality theory achievements and challenges / D. Eric Holt
  • Phonologization / Paul Kiparsky
  • Variation, transmission, incrementation / Alexandra D'Arcy
  • Phonological change in real time / David Bowie, Malcah Yaeger-Dror
  • Historical phonology and koinéization / Daniel Schreier
  • Second language acquisition and phonological change / Fred R. Eckman, Gregory Iverson
  • Loanword adaptation / Christian Uffmann.