John J. Ohala

List of John Benjamins publications in which John J. Ohala is involved.

Articles

Ohala, John J. 2012 The listener as a source of sound change: An update The Initiation of Sound Change: Perception, production, and social factors, Solé, Maria-Josep and Daniel Recasens (eds.), pp. 21–36 | Article

This paper is an update with some revisions on the paper “The listener as a source of sound change” published in 1981 as well as related papers published subsequently. First, arguments will be presented to reinforce the claim that sound change is free of teleology, i.e., purposeful change – neither… read more

Ohala, John J. 1992 The costs and benefits of phonological analysis The Linguistics of Literacy, Downing, Pamela A., Susan D. Lima and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 211–238 | Article

Hombert, Jean-Marie and John J. Ohala 1982 Historical development of tone patterns Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Hamburg, August 22–26 1977, Maher, J. Peter, Allan R. Bomhard and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 75–84 | Article