Sound Change

by Joseph Salmons

Book Overview

Drawing examples from a range of world languages, this textbook introduces the ways in which speech sounds become different over time. It explores how we produce and hear particular sounds and how overall word shapes and the pronunciation of individual words change. The roles of phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, traditional formal models and recent exemplar-based work in sound change are all examined. In covering both structural and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474461735
• ISBN13: 9781474461733
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"