Name: Sound Change (Edinburgh Historical Linguistics)
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Author: Joseph Salmons
ISBN: 9781474461726

portada Sound Change (Edinburgh Historical Linguistics)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Edinburgh Univ Pr

Author

Joseph Salmons

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781474461726

Synopsis "Sound Change (Edinburgh Historical Linguistics)"

Drawing examples from a range of world languages, this textbook introduces the ways in which speech sounds become different over time. It explores how we produce and hear particular sounds and how overall word shapes and the pronunciation of individual words change. The roles of phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, traditional formal models and recent exemplar-based work in sound change are all examined. In covering both structural and societal issues, the book integrates different kinds of historical evidence and different theories into a coherent understanding of the full process of sound change.