Origins of sound change : approaches to phonologization /

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Explanations for sound change have traditionally focused on identifying the inception of change, that is, the identification of perturbations of the speech signal, conditioned by physiological constraints on articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms, which affect the way speech sounds are analyzed by...

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Pt. 1. What is phonologization? Enlarging the scope of phonologization / Larry M. Hyman -- The role of entropy and surprisal in phonologization and language change / Elizabeth Hume and Frédéric Mailhot -- pt. 2. Phonetic considerations. Phonetic bias in sound change / Andrew Garrett and Keith Johnson -- From long to short and from short to long: perceptual motivations for changes in vocalic length / Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier -- Inhibitory mechanisms in speech planning maintain and maximize contrast / Sam Tilsen -- Developmental perspectives on phonological typology and sound change / Chandan Narayan -- pt. 3. Phonological and morphological considerations. Lexical sensitivity to phonetic and phonological pressures / Abby Kaplan -- Phonologization and the typology of feature behavior / Jeff Mielke -- Rapid learning of morphologically conditioned phonetics: vowel nasalization across a boundary / Rebecca Morley -- pt. 4. Social and computational dynamics. Individual differences in socio-cognitive processing and the actuation of sound change / Alan C.L. Yu -- The role of probabilistic enhancement in phonologization / James Kirby -- Modeling the emergence of vowel harmony through iterated learning / Frédéric Mailhot -- Variation and change in English noun/verb pair stress: data and dynamical systems models / Morgan Sonderegger and Partha Niyogi -- References -- Language index -- Subject index.
1. Verfasser:
Yu, Alan C. L.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
Explanations for sound change have traditionally focused on identifying the inception of change, that is, the identification of perturbations of the speech signal, conditioned by physiological constraints on articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms, which affect the way speech sounds are analyzed by the listener.
Umfang:
1 online resource (353 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:
0-19-164849-3
0-19-957374-3
Schlagworte:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Phonology.
Linguistic change.
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