发表于2024-12-29
Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change) 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 语言演化 词频 linguistics dissertation
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.
Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change) 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书