Consonant change in english worldwide: synchrony meets diachrony
Auteur :
Schreier, D.
Éditeur :
Palgrave USA
ISBN :
9781403998248
Date de publication :
1 nov. 2005
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.