Origins of Sound Change: Approaches to Phonologization

by Alan S.L. Yu

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. While this emphasis on identifying the nature of intrinsic variation in speech has provided important insights into the origins of widely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199573743
• ISBN13: 9780199573745
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"