"This volume should be of great interest to phoneticians, phonologists, and both historical and cognitive linguists. Using data from the Romance languages for the most part, the book explores the phonetic motivation of several sound changes, e.g., glide insertions and elisions, …
Explanations for sound change have traditionally focused on identifying the inception of change, that is, the identification of perturbations of the speech signal, conditioned by physiological constraints on articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms, which affect the way speech so…
Explanations for sound change have traditionally focused on identifying the inception of change, that is, the identification of perturbations of the speech signal, conditioned by physiological constraints on articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms, which affect the way speech so…
Sounds, words, texts, and change: selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compos…
by Seoane, Elena, Méndez Naya, Belén, Fanego, Teresa, International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, University of Santiago de Compostela)
fromAmsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic S…