Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change) - Tapa dura

Phillips, Betty S.

 
9781403932327: Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change)

Sinopsis

This study of word frequency effects on sound change provides a resolution of the Neogrammarian controversy. Betty S. Phillips discusses the implications for phonology and historical linguistics of certain types of change affecting the most frequent words first and other types of change affecting the least frequent words first.

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BETTY S. PHILLIPS is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Indiana State University, USA. Her articles on the lexical diffusion of sound change have appeared in American Speech, Journal of English Linguistics, Language, Linguistics and Word.

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