Consonant Change in English Worldwide - Synchrony Meets Diachrony (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)

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 fifteen varieties with different time depths and social histories.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change
Release date:	November 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	D. Schreier
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
Edition:	2005 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-9824-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech) Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General
LSN:	1-4039-9824-8
Barcode:	9781403998248

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