The Oxford handbook of historical phonology / edited by Patrick Honeybone and Joseph Salmons.

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1. Introduction : key questions for historical phonology / Patrick Honeybone and Joseph Salmons -- 2. An Early history of historical phonology / Robert Murray -- 3. Structuralist historical phonology : systems in sound change / Joseph Salmons and Patrick Honeybone -- 4. Phonological reconstruction / Anthony Fox -- 5. Establishing phonemic contrast in written sources / Donka Minlova -- 6. Interpreting diffuse orthographies and orthographic change / J. Marshall Unger -- 7. Interpreting alphabetic orthographies : early Middle English spelling / Roger Lass -- 8. The role of typology in historical phonology / Martin Kummel -- 9. Computational and quantitative approaches to historical phonology / Brett Kessler -- 10. Simulation as an investigative tool in historical phonology / Andrew Wedel -- 11. Using corpora of recorded speech for historical phonology / Warren Maguire -- 12. Exploring chain shifts, mergers, near-mergers as changes in progress / Matthew J. Gordon -- 13. Basic types of phonological change / András Cser -- 14. Analogy and morphophonological change / David Fertig -- 15. Change in word prosody : stress and quantity / Aditi Lahiri -- 16. Tonoexodus, tonogenesis, and tone change / Martha Ratliff -- 17. The role of prosodic templates in diachrony / Laura Catharine Smith and Adam Ussishkin -- 18. First language acquisition and phonological change / Paul Foulkes and Marilyn Vihman -- 19. How diachronic is synchronic grammar? Crazy rules, regularity, and naturalness / Tobias Scheer -- 20. An I-language approach to phonologization and lexification / Mark Hale, Madelyn Kissock, and Charles Reiss -- 21. Lexical diffusion in historical phonology / Betty S. Phillips -- 22. Amphichronic explanation and the life cycle of phonological processes / Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero -- 23. Individuals, innovation, and change / Mark J. Jones -- 24. The role of experimental Investigation in the explanation of sound change / Alan C.L. Yu -- 25. Natural phonology and sound change / Patricia J. Donegan and Geoffrey S. Nathan -- 26. Preference laws in phonological change / Robert Mailhammer, David Restle, and Theo Vennemann -- 27. Articulatory processing and frequency of use in sound change / Joan Bybee -- 28. Evolutionary phonology : a holistic approach to sound change typology / Juliette Blevins -- 29. Rule-based generative historical phonology / B. Elan Dresher -- 30. Distinctive features, levels of representation, and historical phonology / Thomas C. Purnell and Eric Raimy -- 31. Historical sound change in optimality theory : achievements and challenges / D. Eric Holt -- 32. Phonologization / Paul Kiparsky -- 33. Variation, transmission, incrementation / Alexandra D'Arcy -- 34. Phonological change in real time / David Bowie and Malcah Yaeger-Dror -- 35. Historical phonology and koinéization / Daniel Schreier -- 36. Second language acquisition and phonological change / Fred R. Eckman and Gregory Iverson -- 37. Loanword adaptation / Christian Uffmann.

This book presents a comprehensive and critical overview of historical phonology as it stands today. Scholars from around the world consider and advance research in every aspect of the field. In doing so they demonstrate the continuing vitality of one of the oldest sub-disciplines of linguistics.