Irene Böhm
List of John Benjamins publications in which Irene Böhm is involved.
Article
2026 Sound changes are selected by a bias against morphotactic ambiguity Journal of Historical Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper hypothesises that there is a universal cognitively and semiotically grounded preference for word-form shapes that signal the morphotactic structure of the word forms they represent. By exploring three historical changes in English, we demonstrate how such a bias might plausibly… read more