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Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion - Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change B. Phillips 2006 edition
Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion - Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change
B. Phillips
This study of word frequency effects on sound change provides a resolution of the Neogrammarian controversy. Betty S. Phillips discusses the implications for phonology and historical linguistics of certain types of change affecting the most frequent words first and other types of change affecting the least frequent words first.
268 pages, 1, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 29, 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9781403932327 |
| Publishers | Palgrave USA |
| Pages | 252 |
| Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 19 mm · 430 g |
| Language | English |