Title: Consonant change in English worldwide : synchrony meets diachrony /
Authors: Schreier, Daniel, 1971-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2005
Subjects: English language Consonants; English language Phonology, Historical; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Linguistics Phonetics & Phonology.; English language Consonants; English language Phonology, Historical; Sociolinguistics.; Historical & comparative linguistics.; Phonetics, phonology.; Languages.
Abstract: "Applying insights from variationist linguistics to historical change mechanisms in the English consonant system, Daniel Schreier reports findings from a historical corpus-based study on the reduction of various consonant clusters and compares them with similar processes in synchronic varieties. He therefore defines consonantal change as a strictly interdisciplinary phenomenon that involves fields as distinct as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, phonological theory and contact linguistics."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction -- Consonant clusters : general observation -- Initial cluster reduction in English -- Final cluster reduction in English -- Theoretical implications -- Summary and conclusion.