Consonant Change in English Worldwide: Synchrony Meets Diachrony (2005) (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2005
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- ISBN-13:
- 9780230513327
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781403998248
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
- Date of Addition:
- 12/08/20
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- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Language Arts
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- This is a copyrighted book.