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Consonant Change in English Worldwide: Synchrony Meets Diachrony (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change)

By Daniel Schreier

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
1403998248, 9781403998248, 9780230513327
LCC
PE1159 .S38 2005
Open Library ID
OL22712854M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
758 kB (776068 bytes)
Pages
256\265
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Applying insights from variationist linguistics to historical change mechanisms that have affected the consonantal system of English, Daniel Schreier reports findings from a historical corpus-based study on the reduction of particular consonant clusters and compares them with similar processes in synchronic varieties, thus defining consonantal change as a phenomenon involving psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, phonological theory and contact linguistics. Moreover, he weighs the impact of external and internal effects on causation, examining data from a total of fifteen varieties with different time depths and social histories.

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