The Initiation of Sound Change
Perception, production, and social factors
1st Edition
Published on 18. July 2012
X, 250 pages
978-90-272-7366-6 (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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Perception, production, and social factors
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Content
Foreword and acknowledgements
List of contributors and discussion participants
Editors' introduction
Part I. Perception
The listener as a source of sound change: An update
John J. Ohala
Perception grammars and sound change
Patrice Speeter Beddor
A phonetic interpretation of the sound changes affecting dark /l/ in Romance
Daniel Recasens
The production and perception of sub-phonemic vowel contrasts and the role of the listener in sound change
Michael Grosvald and David P. Corina
Part II. Production
The coarticulatory basis of diachronic high back vowel fronting
Jonathan Harrington
Natural and unnatural patterns of sound change?
Maria-Josep Solé
The gaits of speech: Re-examining the role of articulatory effort in spoken language
Marianne Pouplier
Part III. Social factors, structural factors and the typology of change
Prosodic skewing of input and the initiation of cross-generational sound change
Joseph C. Salmons, Robert Allen Fox and Ewa Jacewicz
Social and personality variables in compensation for altered auditory feedback
Svetlin Dimov, Shira Katseff and Keith Johnson
Patterns of lexical diffusion and articulatory motivation for sound change
Joan L. Bybee
Foundational concepts in the scientific study of sound change
Mark Hale
Index of subjects and terms
List of contributors and discussion participants
Editors' introduction
Part I. Perception
The listener as a source of sound change: An update
John J. Ohala
Perception grammars and sound change
Patrice Speeter Beddor
A phonetic interpretation of the sound changes affecting dark /l/ in Romance
Daniel Recasens
The production and perception of sub-phonemic vowel contrasts and the role of the listener in sound change
Michael Grosvald and David P. Corina
Part II. Production
The coarticulatory basis of diachronic high back vowel fronting
Jonathan Harrington
Natural and unnatural patterns of sound change?
Maria-Josep Solé
The gaits of speech: Re-examining the role of articulatory effort in spoken language
Marianne Pouplier
Part III. Social factors, structural factors and the typology of change
Prosodic skewing of input and the initiation of cross-generational sound change
Joseph C. Salmons, Robert Allen Fox and Ewa Jacewicz
Social and personality variables in compensation for altered auditory feedback
Svetlin Dimov, Shira Katseff and Keith Johnson
Patterns of lexical diffusion and articulatory motivation for sound change
Joan L. Bybee
Foundational concepts in the scientific study of sound change
Mark Hale
Index of subjects and terms
