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Drawing examples from a range of world languages, this textbook introduces the ways in which speech sounds become different over time. It explores how we produce and hear particular sounds and how overall word shapes and the pronunciation of individual words change. The roles of phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, traditional formal models and recent exemplar-based work in sound change are all examined. In covering both structural and societal issues, the book integrates different kinds of historical evidence and different theories into a coherent understanding of the full process of sound change.

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9781474461733

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"This book sets the standard for textbooks in this area. There is no other volume which provides a full introduction to 'sound change studies' in the way that this book does, linking the broad range of topics which all need to contribute if we are to properly understand how phonology can change.-- ""Patrick Honeybone, University of Edinburgh"""

This book sets the standard for textbooks in this area. There is no other volume which provides a full introduction to 'sound change studies' in the way that this book does, linking the broad range of topics which all need to contribute if we are to properly understand how phonology can change.-- ""Patrick Honeybone, University of Edinburgh""

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Joe Salmons is the Lester W.J. ""Smoky"" Seifert Professor in Language Sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison

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