The Oxford handbook of historical phonology 1. Introduction : key questions for historical phonology Patrick Honeybone and Joseph Salmons 2. An Early history of historical phonology Robert Murray 3. Structuralist historical phonology : systems in sound change Joseph Salmons and Patrick Honeybone 4. Phonological reconstruction Anthony Fox 5. Establishing phonemic contrast in written sources Donka Minlova 6. Interpreting diffuse orthographies and orthographic change J. Marshall Unger 7. Interpreting alphabetic orthographies : early Middle English spelling Roger Lass 8. The role of typology in historical phonology Martin Kummel 9. Computational and quantitative approaches to historical phonology Brett Kessler 10. Simulation as an investigative tool in historical phonology Andrew Wedel 11. Using corpora of recorded speech for historical phonology Warren Maguire 12. Exploring chain shifts mergers near mergers as changes in progress Matthew J. Gordon 13. Basic types of phonological change András Cser 14. Analogy and morphophonological change David Fertig 15. Change in word prosody : stress and quantity Aditi Lahiri 16. Tonoexodus tonogenesis and tone change Martha Ratliff 17. The role of prosodic templates in diachrony Laura Catharine Smith and Adam Ussishkin 18. First language acquisition and phonological change Paul Foulkes and Marilyn Vihman 19. How diachronic is synchronic grammar Crazy rules regularity and naturalness Tobias Scheer 20. An I language approach to phonologization and lexification Mark Hale Madelyn Kissock and Charles Reiss 21. Lexical diffusion in historical phonology Betty S. Phillips 22. Amphichronic explanation and the life cycle of phonological processes Ricardo Bermúdez Otero 23. Individuals innovation and change Mark J. Jones 24. The role of experimental Investigation in the explanation of sound change Alan C.L. Yu 25. Natural phonology and sound change Patricia J. Donegan and Geoffrey S. Nathan 26. Preference laws in phonological change Robert Mailhammer David Restle and Theo Vennemann 27. Articulatory processing and frequency of use in sound change Joan Bybee 28. Evolutionary phonology : a holistic approach to sound change typology Juliette Blevins 29. Rule based generative historical phonology B. Elan Dresher 30. Distinctive features levels of representation and historical phonology Thomas C. Purnell and Eric Raimy 31. Historical sound change in optimality theory : achievements and challenges D. Eric Holt 32. Phonologization Paul Kiparsky 33. Variation transmission incrementation Alexandra DArcy 34. Phonological change in real time David Bowie and Malcah Yaeger Dror 35. Historical phonology and koinéization Daniel Schreier 36. Second language acquisition and phonological change Fred R. Eckman and Gregory Iverson 37. Loanword adaptation Christian Uffmann This book presents a comprehensive and critical overview of historical phonology as it stands today. Scholars from around the world consider and advance research in every aspect of the field. In doing so they demonstrate the continuing vitality of one of the oldest sub disciplines of linguistics