Consonant Change in English Worldwide

Synchrony Meets Diachrony
2005. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4039-9824-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change

Applying insights from variationist linguistics to historical change mechanisms that have affected the consonantal system of English, Daniel Schreier reports findings from a historical corpus-based study on the reduction of particular consonant clusters and compares them with similar processes in synchronic varieties, thus defining consonantal change as a phenomenon involving psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, phonological theory and contact linguistics. Moreover, he weighs the impact of external and internal effects on causation, examining data from a total of 15 varieties with different time depths and social histories.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schreier, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Tables and Figures Introduction Consonant Clusters: General Observations Initial Cluster Reduction in English Final Cluster Reduction in English Theoretical Implications Summary and Conclusion References Index

Über Autor(innen)

DANIEL SCHREIER has taught in Switzerland, the USA and in New Zealand and is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Berne, Switzerland. He is author of and co-author (with Karen Lavarello-Schreier) of .