Consonant Change in English Worldwide : Synchrony meets Diachrony /

Applying insights from variationist linguistics to historical change mechanisms that have affected the consonantal system of English, Daniel Schreier reports findings from a historical corpus-based study on the reduction of particular consonant clusters and compares them with similar processes in sy...

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Main Author:	Schreier, Daniel (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Series:	Palgrave studies in language history and language change.
Subjects:	Linguistics. Comparative Linguistics. Historical Linguistics. Phonology. Sociolinguistics. Comparative linguistics. Grammar, Comparative and general > Phonology. Historical linguistics. Phonetics. Electronic books.
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Summary:	Applying insights from variationist linguistics to historical change mechanisms that have affected the consonantal system of English, Daniel Schreier reports findings from a historical corpus-based study on the reduction of particular consonant clusters and compares them with similar processes in synchronic varieties, thus defining consonantal change as a phenomenon involving psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, phonological theory and contact linguistics. Moreover, he weighs the impact of external and internal effects on causation, examining data from a total of 15 varieties with different time depths and social histories.
Item Description:	Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (XVI, 248 pages)
ISBN:	9780230513327
DOI:	10.1057/9780230513327