Explanations for sound change have traditionally focused on identifying the inception of change, that is, the identification of perturbations of the speech sign

Examines advanced approaches to sound change from various theoretical and methodological perspectives, including articulatory variation and modeling, speech per

An entirely new follow-up volume providing a detailed account of numerous additional issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical l

This book discusses the origins of a series of sound changes in English: it investigates their linguistic properties and social and cultural context to investig

Evolutionary Phonology is a theory of sound patterns which synthesizes results in historical linguistics, phonetics and phonological theory. In this book, Julie