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Origins of Sound Change : Approaches to Phonologization

ISBN: 9780199573745 | 0199573743
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/1/2013

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Explanations for sound change have traditionally focused on identifying the inception of change, that is, the identification of perturbations of the speech signal, conditioned by physiological constraints on articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms, which affect the way speech sounds are analyzed by the listener. While this emphasis on identifying the nature of intrinsic variation in speech has provided important insights into the origins of widely attested cross-linguistic sound changes, the nature of phonologization - the transition from intri... MORE

Part I: What is Phonologization
1. Enlarging the Scope of Phonologization, Larry Hyman
2. Certainty and Expectation in Phonologization and Language, Elizabeth Hume and Frederic Mailhot
Part II: Phonetic Considerations
3. Phonetic Bias in Sound Change, Andrew Garrett and Keith Johnson
4. From Long to Short and From Short to Long: Perceptual motivations for changes in vocalic length, Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier
5. Inibitory Mechanisms in Speech Planni... MORE

Alan C. L. Yu is Associate Professor of Linguistics and the College and the University of Chicago. He also directs the Phonology Laboratory and the Washo Documentation Project. His research focuses on phonological theory, phonetics, language typology, and language variation and change. He is the author of A Natural History of Infixation (2007, Oxford University Press) and co-editor of the Blackwell Handbook of Phonological Theory 2nd Edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).


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