Phonetic Bias in Sound Change
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Phonetic bias in sound change
Interest in the phonetics of sound change is as old as scientific linguistics (Osthoff and Brugman 1878). The prevalent view is that a key component of sound change is what Hyman (1977) dubbed phonologization: the process or processes by which automatic phonetic patterns give rise to a language’s phonological patterns. Sound patterns have a variety of other sources, including analogical change,...
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عنوان ژورنال: UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Reports
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2768-5047
DOI: 10.5070/p78587g0jg