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Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion /

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This study of word frequency effects on sound change provides a resolution of the Neogrammarian controversy. Betty S. Phillips discusses the implications for phonology and historical linguistics of certain types of change affecting the most frequent words first and other types of change affecting th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Phillips, Betty S. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Series:Palgrave studies in language history and language change.
Subjects:
Linguistics.
Comparative Linguistics.
Grammar.
Historical Linguistics.
Phonology.
Sociolinguistics.
Comparative linguistics.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Phonology.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Historical linguistics.
Language and languages > Grammars.
Phonetics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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