Evolutionary phonology : the emergence of sound patterns /
This groundbreaking book explores the nature of sound change in human language over the past 7000 8000 years. It presents a new approach to the problem of how genetically unrelated languages can often show similar sound patterns, and why there are many exceptions to the patterns often regarded as un...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminaries:
- What is evolutionary phonology?
- Evolution in language and elsewhere
- Explanation in phonology: a brief history of ideas
- Sound Patterns:
- Laryngeal features
- Place features
- Other common sound patterns
- The evolution of geminates
- Some uncommon sound patterns
- Implications:
- Synchronic phonology
- Diachronic phonology
- Beyond phonology.