Consonant Change in English Worldwide: Synchrony Meets Diachrony by Schreier, D.

Consonant Change in English Worldwide: Synchrony Meets Diachrony (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349546848)

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Consonant Change in English Worldwide: Synchrony Meets Diachrony by Schreier, D.

Consonant Change in English Worldwide: Synchrony Meets Diachrony

$109.99
Consonant Change in English Worldwide: Synchrony Meets Diachrony by Schreier, D.

Consonant Change in English Worldwide: Synchrony Meets Diachrony

$109.99
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: D. Schreier
ISBN-10: 1349546844
ISBN-13: 9781349546848
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2005
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d
By D. Schreier
By D. Schreier
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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 Isolation and Language Change and co-author (with Karen Lavarello-Schreier) of Tristan da Cunha: History People Language.

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