The essays reprinted in this volume are concerned with exploring the connections between synchronic phonology and change. The strategy is to identify structure-dependent properties of change and to use them in turn to test hypotheses about structure. For example, if the right way to look at analogic
Explanation in Phonology
โ Scribed by Paul Kiparsky
- Publisher
- De Gruyter
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 264
- Series
- Publications in Language Sciences; 4
- Edition
- Reprint 2012
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Chapter 1. Sound Change
Chapter 2. Linguistic Universals and Linguistic Change
Chapter 3. Historical Linguistics
Chapter 4. Historical Linguistics
Chapter 5. Explanation in Phonology
Chapter 6. How abstract is Phonology?
Chapter 7. Productivity in Phonology
Chapter 8. From Paleogrammarians to Neogrammarians
Chapter 9. On the Evaluation Measure
Chapter 10. Remarks on Analogical Change
Chapter 11. Analogical Change as a Problem for Linguistic Theory
Bibliography
Index
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