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.
| ISBN | 9781349546848 |
| Autor(a) | Schreier, D. |
| Editora | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Ano de edição | 2005 |
| Páginas | 248 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |
| Dimensões | 21,60 X 14,00 |