Consonant change in English worldwide
Subtitle: synchrony meets diachrony
By: Daniel Schreier.
Series: Palgrave studies in language history and language change
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: English language -- Consonants.; English language -- Phonology, Historical.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.