Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion
Format: Print Book
ISBN: 9781403932327
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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.
Publication Year: 2006
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: H
Weight (Gram): 490