Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Consonant Change in English Worldwide: Synchrony Meets Diachrony

Consonant Change in English Worldwide: Synchrony Meets Diachrony

Schreier, D.

Paperback

Series: Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change

Linguistics

ISBN10: 1349546844
ISBN13: 9781349546848
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 1 2005
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

Also in

Linguistics

View All