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A History of English Phonology (Hardcover)
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A History of English Phonology (Hardcover)
Series: Longman Linguistics Library
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This is an attempt to view historical phonological change as an
ongoing, recurrent process. The author sees like events occurring
at all periods, a phenomenon which he considers is disguised by too
great a reliance upon certain characteristics of the scholarly
tradition. Thus he argues that those innovations arrived at by
speakers of the English language many years ago are not in
principle unlike those that can be seen to be happening today.
Phonological mutations are, on the whole, not to be regarded as
unique, novel, once only events. Speakers appear to present to
speech sound materials, a limited set of evaluative and decoding
perceptions, together with what would seem to be a finite number of
innovation producing stratagems in response to their
interpretation. It is stressed that this interpretation may itself
be a direct product of the kinds of data selected for presentation
in traditional handbooks and Jones notes the fact that phonological
change is often "messy" and responsive to a highly tuned ability to
perceive fine phonetic detail of a type which, by definition,
rarely has the opportunity to surface in historical data sources.
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