Recent developments in historical phonology / edited by Jacek Fisiak.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Fisiak, Jacek.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Historical Phonology (1976 : Ustronie, Poland)

International Conference on Historical Phonology

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs.

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 4.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology--Congresses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Historical linguistics--Congresses.

Historical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (467 pages)

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

The Hague ; New York : Mouton, 1978.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Recent Developments in Historical Phonology".

Contents:

Front matter

Perceptual and conceptual factors in abductive innovations / ANDERSEN, HENNING

Historical change and rule ordering in phonology / ANDERSON, STEPHEN R.

The acceptance of sound change by linguistic structure / ANTTILA, RAIMO

A formal approach to the theory of fortition-lenition: a preliminary study / BAŃCZEROWSKI, JERZY

Some considerations on voicing with special reference to spirants in English and Dutch: a diachronic-contrastive approach / DEKEYSER, ΧΑVIER

Child language and language change: a conjecture and some refutations / DRACHMAN, GABERELL

How much does performance contribute to phonological change? / DRESSLER, WOLFGANG

The inter-relationship between phonological and grammatical change / HARRIS, MARTIN Β.

Secondary split, typology, and universals / HOENIGSWALD, HENRY Μ.

Constraints on schwa-deletion in American English / HOOPER, JOAN Β.

Phonological models and Slavic palatalizations / HUNTLEY, DAVID

Restructuring, relexicalization, and reversion in historical phonology / JEFFERS, ROBERT J.

"Diagonal" vowel harmony?: Some implications for historical phonology / KIM, CHIN-W.

I.-E. palatovelars before resonants in Balto-Slavic / KORTLANDT, FREDERIK

Mapping constraints in phonological reconstruction: on climbing down trees without falling out of them / LASS, ROGER

Notes on the history of accent in Japanese / McCAWLEY, JAMES D.

Irregular sound change due to frequency in German / MAŃCZAK, WITOLD

Phonostylistics and sound change / RUBACH, JERZY

Perseverance in the English vowel shift / STOCKWELL, ROBERT P.

The origin of the Germanic dental preterit: Von Friesen revisited / TOPS, GUY A. J.

The simplification of the unstressed vowel systems in Old High German / VALENTIN, PAUL

Rule inversion and lexical storage: The case of Sanskrit visarga / VENNEMANN, THEO

Is sound change teleological? / VINCENT, NIGEL

The distribution of short and long vowels in stems of the type Lith. ̇ésti: vèsti: mèsti and OCS jasti: vesti: mesti in Baltic and Slavic languages / WINTER, WERNER

Comment on W. Winter's paper / KORTLANDT, FREDERIK

Index of names

Notes:

"Papers prepared for the International Conference on Historical Phonology, held at Ustronie, Poland, 17-20 March 1976."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110810929

3110810921

OCLC:

979906794