Ranjan Sen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ranjan Sen is involved.

Articles

Sen, Ranjan 2025 Resurrecting rhymes, reasons and (no) rhotics: Reconstructing Keats’s pronunciation Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden (eds.), pp. 5–19 | Chapter

This paper reconstructs the pronunciation of the English Romantic poet John Keats — and in particular the likely original sound of one of his final poems, Bright Star — just over two hundred years after his death (1821). Keats makes a particularly fascinating phonological study due to Lockhart’s… read more

Bowern, Claire, David Goldstein, George Walkden, Anne Breitbarth, Chelsea Sanker, Freek Van de Velde, Ranjan Sen and Aditi Lahiri 2023 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 40:5, pp. 666–682 | Editorial

Sen, Ranjan and Nicholas Zair 2022 Liquid polarity, positional contrast, and diachronic change: Clear and dark /r/ in Latin Diachronica 39:3, pp. 409–448 | Article

Apparently disparate sound changes in Latin, involving both vowels and consonants but sensitive to /r/, can be explained by reconstructing a positional clear/dark contrast in /r/, motivated by the seldom-mentioned “liquid polarity” effect. Examining these diachronic processes together allows us… read more