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Variation, Change, and Phonological Theory
Editors
There is a growing awareness that a fruitful cooperation between the (diachronic and synchronic) study of language variation and change and work in phonological theory is both possible and desirable. The study of language variation and change would benefit from this kind of cooperation on the conceptual and theoretical levels. Phonological theory may well profit from a greater use of what is commonly called ‘external evidence’.
This volume contains contributions by outstanding representatives from the more data-oriented fields and phonological theory. They discuss possibilities and problems for a further integration of both areas, by considering questions such as where and to which extent the two may need each other, and whether there is a need for an interdisciplinary conceptual framework and methodology. Attention is also paid to questions regarding the cause and actuation, linguistic constraints and the internal spread of linguistic change, as well as to possible and impossible processes of language change.
This volume contains contributions by outstanding representatives from the more data-oriented fields and phonological theory. They discuss possibilities and problems for a further integration of both areas, by considering questions such as where and to which extent the two may need each other, and whether there is a need for an interdisciplinary conceptual framework and methodology. Attention is also paid to questions regarding the cause and actuation, linguistic constraints and the internal spread of linguistic change, as well as to possible and impossible processes of language change.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 146] 1997. x, 314 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 24 October 2011
Published online on 24 October 2011
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Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. vii–viii
- Contributors | pp. ix–x
- Balancing Data and Theory in the Study of Phonological Variation and ChangeFrans L. Hinskens, Roeland van Hout and W. Leo Wetzels | pp. 1–33
- Deriving Variation from GrammarArto Anttila | pp. 35–68
- Co-Occurrence Restrictions between Linguistic Variables: A Case for Social Dialectology, Phonological Theory and Variation StudiesPeter Auer | pp. 69–100
- L-Vocalization in Australian EnglishToni Borowsky and Barbara M. Horvath | pp. 101–123
- Competence, Performance, and the Generative Grammar of VariationGregory R. Guy | pp. 125–143
- ResyllabificationWilliam Labov | pp. 145–179
- When does Variability become Relevant to Formal Linguistic Theory?Maria-Rosa Lloret | pp. 181–206
- Style Levels in Conflict ResolutionMarc van Oostendorp | pp. 207–229
- Featural Morphology and Dialect Variation: The Contribution of Historical ChangeSharon Rose | pp. 231–266
- Shrinking and Hopping Vowels in Northern Cape York: Minimally Different SystemsNorval Smith | pp. 267–302
- Author index | pp. 303–307
- Language index | pp. 309–310
- Subject index | pp. 311–314
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