Word frequency and lexical diffusion /
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| Author / Creator: | Phillips, Betty S., 1949- |
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| Imprint: | Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. |
| Description: | xiv, 252 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Palgrave studies in language history and language change |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6207295 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Word frequency and the neogrammarian controversy
- 2. The lexical diffusion of phonetically abrupt changes
- 3. The lexical diffusion of phonetically gradual changes
- 4. Lexical diffusion and word class
- 5. Analogy, borrowing, and lexical diffusion
- 6. Applications of lexical diffusion
- 7. Conclusions, connections, and implications
- App. A. Stress patterns and the suffix -ate
- App. B. Prenasal/a/-raising in the Old English Pastoral care
- App. C. Unrounding of OE long and short /[actual symbol not reproducible](:)/ in the Ormulum
- App. D. Vowel lengthening before voiced homorganic consonant clusters in the Ormulum
- App. E. Spellings in <<a>> versus <<o>> before nasals in the Pastoral care.
