Explanations for sound change have traditionally focused on identifying the inception of change, that is, the identification of perturbations of the speech signal, conditioned by physiological constraints on articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms, which affect the way speech sounds are analyzed by the listener.
While this emphasis on identifying the nature of intrinsic variation in speech has provided important insights into the origins of widely attested cross-linguistic sound changes, the nature of phonologization - the transition from intrinsic phonetic variation to extrinsic phonological encoding - remains largely unexplored.
This volume showcases the current state of the art in phonologization research, bringing together work by leading scholars in sound change research from different disciplinary and scholarly traditions. The authors investigate the progression of sound change from the perspectives of speech perception, speech production, phonology, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, computer science, statistics, and social and cognitive psychology.
The book highlights the fruitfulness of collaborative efforts among phonologists and specialists from neighbouring disciplines in seeking unified theoretical explanations for the origins of sound patterns in language, as well as improved syntheses of synchronic and diachronic phonology.
Edited by:
Alan C. L. Yu (Associate Professor of Linguistics and the College University of Chicago)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 240mm,
Width: 163mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199573745
ISBN 10: 0199573743
Pages: 354
Publication Date: 10 January 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part I: What is Phonologization 1: Larry Hyman: Enlarging the Scope of Phonologization 2: Elizabeth Hume and Frédéric Mailhot: Certainty and Expectation in Phonologization and Language Part II: Phonetic Considerations 3: Andrew Garrett and Keith Johnson: Phonetic Bias in Sound Change 4: Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier: From Long to Short and From Short to Long: Perceptual motivations for changes in vocalic length 5: Sam Tilsen: Inibitory Mechanisms in Speech Planning Maintain and Maximie Contrast 6: Chandan Narayan: Developmental Perspectives on phonological Typology and Sound Change Part III: Phonological and Morphological Considerations 7: Abby Kaplan: Lexical Sensitivity to Phonetic and Phonological Pressures 8: Jeff Mielke: Phonologization and the Typology of Feature Behaviour 9: Rebecca Morley: Rapid Learning of Morphologically Conditioned Phonetics: Vowel nasalization across a boundary Part IV: Social and Computational Dynamics 10: Alan C. L. Yu: Individual Variation in Socio-cognitive Processing and Sound Change 11: James Kirby: The Role of Probabilistic Enhancement in Phonologization 12: Frédéric Mailhot: Modelling the Emergence of Vowel Harmony Through Iterated Learning 13: Morgan Sonderegger and Partha Niyogi: Variation and Change in English Noun/Verb Pair Stress: Data, dynamical systems models, and their interaction
Alan C. L. Yu is Associate Professor of Linguistics and the College and the University of Chicago. He also directs the Phonology Laboratory and the Washo Documentation Project. His research focuses on phonological theory, phonetics, language typology, and language variation and change. He is the author of A Natural History of Infixation (2007, Oxford University Press) and co-editor of the Blackwell Handbook of Phonological Theory 2nd Edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).
Reviews for Origins of Sound Change: Approaches to Phonologization
The collection presents fascinating insights and raises intriguing further questions ... This book will be of interest not only to a readership in historical linguistics or phonology, but also to researchers and students in other disciplines interested in sound change * Krisztina Polgardi, Acta Linguistica Hungarica * The aspiring diachronic phonologist will find many avenues here worthy of further pursuit, and the more seasoned scholar will be heartened by the new models of phonologisation that have emerged out of a synthesis between cutting-edge computational and experimental method. * Bridget Samuels, Diachronica *
