Examining the life cycle of phonological processes: considerations for historical research

The life cycle of phonological processes (e.g. Bermúdez-Otero 2015) provides an account of how a sound change might develop over the history of a language, from its beginnings in the pressures of speaking and hearing, through its progress to a cognitively-controlled process and maturation into a cat...

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Main Author: Ranjan Sen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2016-11-01
Series:Papers in Historical Phonology
Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/1691