Origins of sound change : approaches to phonologization /

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Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 336 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford linguistics Oxford linguistics.
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology. Linguistic change. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology. Linguistic change. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12014447

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Other authors / contributors:	Yu, Alan C. L.
ISBN:	9780191648496 0191648493 9780191745249 0191745243 9780199573745 0199573743
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-329) and indexes. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Explanations for sound change have traditionally focused on identifying the inception of change, that is, the identification of perturbations of the speech signal, conditioned by physiological constraints on articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms, which affect the way speech sounds are analyzed by the listener.
Other form:	Print version: Origins of sound change. First edition 9780199573745

Table of Contents:

pt. 1. What is phonologization? Enlarging the scope of phonologization / Larry M. Hyman
The role of entropy and surprisal in phonologization and language change / Elizabeth Hume and Frédéric Mailhot
pt. 2. Phonetic considerations. Phonetic bias in sound change / Andrew Garrett and Keith Johnson
From long to short and from short to long: perceptual motivations for changes in vocalic length / Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier
Inhibitory mechanisms in speech planning maintain and maximize contrast / Sam Tilsen
Developmental perspectives on phonological typology and sound change / Chandan Narayan
pt. 3. Phonological and morphological considerations. Lexical sensitivity to phonetic and phonological pressures / Abby Kaplan
Phonologization and the typology of feature behavior / Jeff Mielke
Rapid learning of morphologically conditioned phonetics: vowel nasalization across a boundary / Rebecca Morley
pt. 4. Social and computational dynamics. Individual differences in socio-cognitive processing and the actuation of sound change / Alan C.L. Yu
The role of probabilistic enhancement in phonologization / James Kirby
Modeling the emergence of vowel harmony through iterated learning / Frédéric Mailhot
Variation and change in English noun/verb pair stress: data and dynamical systems models / Morgan Sonderegger and Partha Niyogi
References
Language index
Subject index.

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