The Initiation of Sound Change
Perception, production, and social factors
Published on 18. July 2012
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-90-272-4841-1 (ISBN)
Description
The origins of sound change is one of the oldest and most challenging questions in the study of language. The goal of this volume is to examine current approaches to sound change from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, including articulatory variation and modeling, speech perception mechanisms and neurobiological processes, geographical and social variation, and diachronic phonology. This diversity of perspectives contributes to a fruitful cross-fertilization across disciplines and represents an attempt to formulate converging ideas on the factors that lead to sound change. This book is addressed to scholars in historical linguistics, linguistic typology, and phonology as well as to researchers in speech production and perception, cognition and modeling. Given the theoretical and methodological interest of the contributions as well as the novel instrumental techniques applied to the study of sound change, this volume will interest professionals teaching language typology, laboratory phonology, sound change, phonetics and phonological theory at the graduate level.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
+ index
Weight
615 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-4841-1 (9789027248411)
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Maria-Josep Solé | Daniel Recasens
The Initiation of Sound Change
Perception, production, and social factors
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07/2012
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1. Foreword and acknowledgements; 2. List of contributors and discussion participants; 3. Editors' introduction; 4. Part I. Perception; 5. The listener as a source of sound change: An update (by Ohala, John J.); 6. Perception grammars and sound change (by Beddor, Patrice Speeter); 7. A phonetic interpretation of the sound changes affecting dark /l/ in Romance (by Recasens, Daniel); 8. The production and perception of sub-phonemic vowel contrasts and the role of the listener in sound change (by Grosvald, Michael); 9. Part II. Production; 10. The coarticulatory basis of diachronic high back vowel fronting (by Harrington, Jonathan); 11. Natural and unnatural patterns of sound change? (by Sole, Maria-Josep); 12. The gaits of speech: Re-examining the role of articulatory effort in spoken language (by Pouplier, Marianne); 13. Part III. Social factors, structural factors and the typology of change; 14. Prosodic skewing of input and the initiation of cross-generational sound change (by Salmons, Joseph C.); 15. Social and personality variables in compensation for altered auditory feedback (by Dimov, Svetlin); 16. Patterns of lexical diffusion and articulatory motivation for sound change (by Bybee, Joan L.); 17. Foundational concepts in the scientific study of sound change (by Hale, Mark); 18. Index of subjects and terms