Sound Change and the History of English التغير الصوتي و التاريخ الإنجليزي

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Title: Sound Change and the History of English
Author(s): Jeremy J. Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: June 14, 2007
Pages: 213
Size: 1.16 Mb
Format: PDF in rar
Quality: Excellent
Language: American English

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 the other.

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