Title: Consonant change in English worldwide
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.
Subjects: Consonants, English language, Historical Phonology, English language, consonants, English language, phonology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, Linguistics, Phonetics & Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Historical & comparative linguistics, Phonetics, phonology, Languages