Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Irregular sound change due to frequency in GermanPhonostylistics and sound change
  • Perseverance in the English vowel shift
  • The origin of the Germanic dental preterit: Von Friesen revisited
  • The simplification of the unstressed vowel systems in Old High German
  • Rule inversion and lexical storage: the case of Sanskrit visarga
  • Is sound change teleological?
  • The distribution of short and long vowels in stems of the type Lith. Ã"sti: vÃ?sti: mÃ?sti and OCS fasti: vesti: mesti in Baltic and Slavic languages
  • Comment on W. Winterâ€?s paper
  • Index of names
  • Preface
  • List of Conference Participants
  • Perceptual and conceptual factors in abductive innovations
  • Historical change and rule ordering in phonology
  • The acceptance of sound change by linguistic structure
  • A formal approach to the theory of fortition-lenition: a preliminary study
  • Some considerations on voicing with special reference to spirants in English and Dutch: a diachronic-contrastive approach
  • Child language and language change: a conjecture and some refutations
  • How much does performance contribute to phonological change?
  • The inter-relationship between phonological and grammatical changeSecondary split, typology and universals
  • Constraints on schwa-deletion in American English
  • Phonological models and Slavic palatalizations
  • Restructuring, relexicalization, and reversion in historical phonology
  • “Diagonalâ€? vowel harmony?: Some implications for historical phonology
  • I.-E. palatovelars before resonants in Balto-Slavic
  • Mapping constraints in phonological reconstruction: on climbing down trees without falling out of them
  • Notes on the history of accent in Japanese