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Consonant Change in English Worldwide : Synchrony Meets Diachrony, Paperback / softback Book

Consonant Change in English Worldwide : Synchrony Meets Diachrony Paperback / softback

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change series

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Applying insights from variationist linguistics to historical change mechanisms that have affected the consonantal system of English, Daniel Schreier reports findings from a historical corpus-based study on the reduction of particular consonant clusters and compares them with similar processes in synchronic varieties, thus defining consonantal change as a phenomenon involving psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, phonological theory and contact linguistics.

Moreover, he weighs the impact of external and internal effects on causation, examining data from a total of 15 varieties with different time depths and social histories.

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