Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change)
Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change)
ISBN: 9781403932327
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan
出版年: 2006-12-26
页数: 272
定价: USD 80.00
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
This study of word frequency effects on sound change provides a resolution of the Neogrammarian controversy, which for over a century has pitted phonetically exceptionless change against lexically gradual change. Combining evidence from historical linguistics, sociology and psycholinguistics, 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.