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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. The book is divided into six parts. The first considers key current research questions, the early history of the field, and the structuralist context for work on sound change. The second examines evidence and methods, including phonological reconstruction, typology, and computational and quantitative approaches. Part III looks at types of phonological change, including stress, tone, and morphophonological change. Part IV explores a series of controversial aspects within the field, including theeffects of first language acquisition, the mechanisms of lexical diffusion, and the role of individuals in innovation. Part V considers the main theoretical perspectives including those of evolutionary phonology and generative historical phonology. The final part examines sociolinguistic andexogenous factors in phonological change, including the study of change in real time, the role of second language acquisition, and loanword adaptation. The authors, who represent leading proponents of every theoretical perspective, consider phonological change over a wide range of the world's language families. The handbook is, in sum, a valuable resource for phonologists and historical linguists and a stimulating guide for their students.

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology

Part I Introduction and Context; 1 Patrick Honeybone and Joseph Salmons: Introduction: key questions for historical phonology; 2 Robert Murray: An Early History of Historical Phonology; 3 Joseph Salmons and Patrick Honeybone: Structuralist Historical Phonology: systems in sound change; Part II: Evidence and Methods in Historical Phonology; 4 Anthony Fox: Phonological Reconstruction; 5 Donka Minlova: Establishing Phonemic Contrast in Written Sources; 6 J. Marshall Unger: Interpreting Diffuse Orthographies and Orthographic Change; 7 Roger Lass: Interpreting Alphabetic Orthographies: early Middle English spelling; 8 Martin Kummel: The Role of Typology in Historical Phonology; 9 Brett Kessler: Computational and Quantitative Approaches to Historical Phonology; 10 Andrew Wedel: Simulation as an Investigative Tool in Historical Phonology; 11 Warren Maguire: Using Corpora of Recorded Speech for Historical Phonology; 12 Matthew J. Gordon: Exploring Chain Shifts, Mergers, Near-mergers as Changes in Progress; Part III: Types of Phonological Change; 13 Andras Cser: Basic Types of Phonological Change; 14 David Fertig: Analogy and Morphophonological Change; 15 Aditi Lahiri: Change in Stress Patterns; 16 Martha Ratliff: Tonoexodus, Tonogenesis, and Tone Change; 17 Laura Catharine Smith and Adam Ussishkin: The Role of Prosodic Templates in Diachrony; Part IV: Fundamental Controversies in Phonological Change; 18 Paul Foulkes and Marilyn Vihman: First Language Acquisition and Phonological Change; 19 Tobias Scheer: How Diachronic is Synchronic Grammar? Crazy Rules, Regularity, and Naturalness; 20 Mark Hale, Madelyn Kissock, and Charles Reiss: An I-Language Approach to Phonologization and Lexification; 21 Betty S. Phillips: Lexical Diffusion in Historical Phonology; 22 Ricardo Bermudez-Otero: Amphichronic Explanation and the Life Cycle of Phonological Processes; 23 Mark J. Jones: Individuals, Innovation, and Change; 24 Alan C. L. Yu: The Role of Experimental Investigation in the Explanation of Sound Change; Part V: Theoretical Historical Phonology; 25 Patricia J. Donegan and Geoffrey S. Nathan: Natural Phonology and Sound Change; 26 Robert Mailhammer, David Restle, and Theo Vennemann: Preference Laws in Phonological Change; 27 Joan Bybee: Articulatory Processing and Frequency of Use in Sound Change; 28 Juliette Blevins: Evolutionary Phonology: a holistic approach to sound change typology; 29 B. Elan Dresher: Rule-based Generative Historical Phonology; 30 Thomas C. Purnell and Eric Raimy: Distinctive Features, Levels of Representation, and Historical Phonology; 31 D. Eric Holt: Historical Sound Change in Optimality Theory: achievements and challenges; 32 Paul Kiparsky: Phonologization; Part VI: Sociolinguistic and Exogenous Factors in Historical Phonology; 33 Alexandra D'Arcy: Variation, Transmission, Incrementation; 34 David Bowie and Malcah Yaeger-Dror: Phonological Change in Real Time; 35 Daniel Schreier: Historical Phonology and Koineisation; 36 Fred R. Eckman and Gregory Iverson: Second Language Acquisition and Phonological Change; 37 Christian Uffmann: Loanword Adaptation; References; Index