Recent Developments in Historical Phonology / / ed. by Jacek Fisiak.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: ANDERSEN, HENNING,; ANDERSON, STEPHEN R.,; ANTTILA, RAIMO,; BAŃCZEROWSKI, JERZY,; DEKEYSER, ΧΑVIER,; DRACHMAN, GABERELL,; DRESSLER, WOLFGANG,; HARRIS, MARTIN Β.,; HOENIGSWALD, HENRY Μ.,; HOOPER, JOAN Β.,; HUNTLEY, DAVID,; JEFFERS, ROBERT J.,; KIM, CHIN-W.,; KORTLANDT, FREDERIK,; LASS, ROGER,; MAŃCZAK, WITOLD,; McCAWLEY, JAMES D.,; RUBACH, JERZY,; STOCKWELL, ROBERT P.,; TOPS, GUY A. J.,; VALENTIN, PAUL,; VENNEMANN, THEO,; VINCENT, NIGEL,; WINTER, WERNER,
• HerausgeberIn: Fisiak, Jacek,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (455 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

I-XII -- Perceptual and conceptual factors in abductive innovations -- Historical change and rule ordering in phonology -- The acceptance of sound change by linguistic structure -- A formal approach to the theory of fortition-lenition: a preliminary study -- Some considerations on voicing with special reference to spirants in English and Dutch: a diachronic-contrastive approach -- Child language and language change: a conjecture and some refutations -- How much does performance contribute to phonological change? -- The inter-relationship between phonological and grammatical change -- Secondary split, typology, and universals -- Constraints on schwa-deletion in American English -- Phonological models and Slavic palatalizations -- Restructuring, relexicalization, and reversion in historical phonology -- "Diagonal" vowel harmony?: Some implications for historical phonology -- I.-E. palatovelars before resonants in Balto-Slavic -- Mapping constraints in phonological reconstruction: on climbing down trees without falling out of them -- Notes on the history of accent in Japanese -- Irregular sound change due to frequency in German -- Phonostylistics and sound change -- Perseverance in the English vowel shift -- The origin of the Germanic dental preterit: Von Friesen revisited -- The simplification of the unstressed vowel systems in Old High German -- Rule inversion and lexical storage: The case of Sanskrit visarga -- Is sound change teleological? -- The distribution of short and long vowels in stems of the type Lith. ̇ésti: vèsti: mèsti and OCS jasti: vesti: mesti in Baltic and Slavic languages -- Comment on W. Winter's paper -- Index of names