Consonant Change in English Worldwide: Synchrony Meets Diachrony (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change)

Consonant Change in English Worldwide: Synchrony Meets Diachrony (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change)

by Daniel Schreier (Author)

Synopsis

Applying insights from variationist linguistics to historical change mechanisms that have affected the consonantal system of English, the author reports findings from a historical corpus-based study on the reduction of particular consonant clusters and compares them with similar processes in synchronic varieties.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 266
Edition: 1st Edition.
Publisher: Palgrave Schol, Print UK
Published: 03 Apr 2006

ISBN 10: 1403998248
ISBN 13: 9781403998248