Origins of sound change : approaches to phonologization / edited by Alan C.L. Yu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yu, Alan C. L.

Series:

Oxford linguistics.

Oxford linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Linguistic change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explanations for sound change have traditionally focused on identifying the inception of change, that is, the identification of perturbations of the speech signal, conditioned by physiological constraints on articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms, which affect the way speech sounds are analyzed by the listener.

Contents:

Pt. 1. What is phonologization? Enlarging the scope of phonologization / Larry M. Hyman

The role of entropy and surprisal in phonologization and language change / Elizabeth Hume and Frédéric Mailhot

pt. 2. Phonetic considerations. Phonetic bias in sound change / Andrew Garrett and Keith Johnson

From long to short and from short to long: perceptual motivations for changes in vocalic length / Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier

Inhibitory mechanisms in speech planning maintain and maximize contrast / Sam Tilsen

Developmental perspectives on phonological typology and sound change / Chandan Narayan

pt. 3. Phonological and morphological considerations. Lexical sensitivity to phonetic and phonological pressures / Abby Kaplan

Phonologization and the typology of feature behavior / Jeff Mielke

Rapid learning of morphologically conditioned phonetics: vowel nasalization across a boundary / Rebecca Morley

pt. 4. Social and computational dynamics. Individual differences in socio-cognitive processing and the actuation of sound change / Alan C.L. Yu

The role of probabilistic enhancement in phonologization / James Kirby

Modeling the emergence of vowel harmony through iterated learning / Frédéric Mailhot

Variation and change in English noun/verb pair stress: data and dynamical systems models / Morgan Sonderegger and Partha Niyogi

References

Language index

Subject index.

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ISBN:

0-19-164849-3

0-19-957374-3

OCLC:

859155039