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Hardcover Sound Change and the History of English Book

ISBN: 0199291950

ISBN13: 9780199291953

Sound Change and the History of English

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This book addresses the question: why do sound changes happen when and where they do? Jeremy Smith discusses the origins of a series of sound changes in English. He relates his arguments to larger questions about the nature of explanation in history and historical linguistics, and examines the interplay between sound change and social change. Drawing on the latest research in the linguistics and history he shows how insights in one field illuminate...

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