Phonetic bias in sound change
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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, but we focus here on their phonetic
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تاریخ انتشار 2011