New Ways of Analyzing Sound Change
Published on 1. January 1991
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-12-229790-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume, aimed at linguists and language students, presents an integrated approach to sound change. It examines change not simply as a series of developments within an abstracted linguistic system, but as part of the situated use of language.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
641 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-229790-8 (9780122297908)
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Content
The three dialects of English, W. Labov; a test for mixed rules, D. Sankoff and P. Rousseau; the development of ME i in England - a study in dynamic dialectology, M. Ogura, W. S. -Y. Wang and L. L. Cavalli-Sforza; the socio-politics of literacy - new methods in old English dialectology, T. Toon; changing realizations of A in (a)tion in relation to the front a back a opposition in Quebec French, W. Kemp and M. Yaeger-Dror; burnouts vs. rednecks- the effects of group membership on the phonemic system, T. Habick; social polarization and the choice of linguistic variants, P. Eckert; the impact of the Ozark drawl - its role in the shift of the diphthong /ey/, C. C. Mock; ethnic boundaries in linguistic variation, R. Knack.