identifying pathways of diachronic change: From esses to aitches

Ferguson, Charles A.

doi:10.1075/tsl.20.06fer

In:Studies in Typology and Diachrony: Papers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday
Edited by William A. Croft, Suzanne Kemmer and Keith Denning
[Typological Studies in Language 20] 1990
► pp. 59–78

Get fulltext from our e-platform

Download Book PDF

From esses to aitches

identifying pathways of diachronic change

Charles A. Ferguson

Published online: 1 January 1990

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.20.06fer

Cited by (14)

Cited by 14 other publications

Order by:

Restrepo-Ramos, Falcon

2025. Tap/trill variation and change across generations of Spanish-Creole bilinguals in San Andrés, Colombia. Linguistic Variation 25:1 ► pp. 86 ff.

Blevins, Juliette & Michela Cresci

2024. Variant patterns of sibilant debuccalization in Camuno. Journal of Historical Linguistics

Jacques, Guillaume

2021. The lateralization of labio-dorsals in Hmongic. Folia Linguistica 55:s42-s2 ► pp. 493 ff.

Wright, Robyn

2021. Madrileños on theejque: Perceptions of Velarized /s/. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 14:1 ► pp. 207 ff.

Wright, Robyn

2021. Regional perceptions of the 'ejque'. Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics 10:1 ► pp. 103 ff.

Brown, Earl K.

2018. The company that word-boundary sounds keep. In Functionalist and usage-based approaches to the study of language [Studies in Language Companion Series, 192], ► pp. 107 ff.

Chappell, Whitney

2015. Formality strategies in Managua, Nicaragua. Spanish in Context 12:2 ► pp. 221 ff.

Chappell, Whitney

2018. The importance of motivated comparisons in variationist studies . In Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 15], ► pp. 143 ff.

Igartua, Iván

2015. Diachronic effects of rhinoglottophilia, symmetries in sound change, and the curious case of Basque. Studies in Language 39:3 ► pp. 635 ff.

Sealey, Alison & Bob Carter

2014. Response to Elder‐Vass: “Seven Ways to be A Realist about Language”. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 44:3 ► pp. 268 ff.

File-Muriel, Richard J. & Earl K. Brown

2011. The gradient nature ofs-lenition in Caleño Spanish. Language Variation and Change 23:2 ► pp. 223 ff.

Labov, William

2006. A sociolinguistic perspective on sociophonetic research. Journal of Phonetics 34:4 ► pp. 500 ff.

Labov, William

2015. The discovery of the unexpected. Asia-Pacific Language Variation 1:1 ► pp. 7 ff.

Blevins, Juliette

2004. Evolutionary Phonology,

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 7 december 2025. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.