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Consonant Change in English Worldwide

Synchrony Meets Diachrony

Consonant Change in English Worldwide( )
Author: Schreier, Daniel
Series title:Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change Ser.
ISBN:978-1-4039-9824-8
Publication Date:Nov 2005
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Imprint:Palgrave Macmillan
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $139.99USD $109.99
Book 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...
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Book Details
Pages:248
Detailed Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.5 x 0.63 Inches
Book Weight:1.023 Pounds



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