Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change

Phillips, B.

This study of word frequency effects on sound change provides a resolution of the Neogrammarian controversy. Betty S. Phillips discusses the implications for phonology and historical linguistics of certain types of change affecting the most frequent words first and other types of change affecting the least frequent words first.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2006-09-29

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403932327

DOI: 10.1057/9780230286610

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 252