Consonant Change in English Worldwide - Synchrony Meets Diachrony
Palgrave USASivumäärä: 248 sivuaAsu: Kovakantinen kirjaPainos: 2005Julkaisuvuosi: 2005, 01.11.2005 (lisätietoa)Kieli: Englanti 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 15 varieties with different time depths and social histories.
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