Recent Developments in Historical Phonology

Jacek Fisiak

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9789027977069
• eBook ISBN: 9783110810929
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Preface
• List of Conference Participants
• 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. ësti: vèsti: mèsti and OCS fasti: vesti: mesti in Baltic and Slavic languages
• Comment on W. Winter’s paper
• Index of names