Part I Introduction and Context
1: Patrick Honeybone and Joseph Salmons: Introduction: key
questions for historical phonology
2: Robert Murray: An Early History of Historical Phonology
3: Joseph Salmons and Patrick Honeybone: Structuralist Historical
Phonology: systems in segmental change
Part II: Evidence and Methods in Historical Phonology
4: Anthony Fox: Phonological Reconstruction
5: Donka Minlova: Establishing Phonemic Contrast in Written
Sources
6: J. Marshall Unger: Interpreting Diffuse Orthographies and
Orthographic Change
7: Roger Lass: Interpreting Alphabetic Orthographies: early Middle
English spelling
8: Martin Kümmel: The Role of Typology in Historical Phonology
9: Brett Kessler: Computational and Quantitative Approaches to
Historical Phonology
10: Andrew Wedel: Simulation as an Investigative Tool in Historical
Phonology
11: Warren Maguire: Using Corpora of Recorded Speech for Historical
Phonology
12: Matthew J. Gordon: Exploring Chain Shifts, Mergers,
Near-mergers as Changes in Progress
Part III: Types of Phonological Change
13: András Cser: Basic Types of Phonological Change
14: David Fertig: Analogy and Morphophonological Change
15: Aditi Lahiri: Change in Word Prosody: Stress and Quantity
16: Martha Ratliff: Tonoexodus, Tonogenesis, and Tone Change
17: Laura Catharine Smith and Adam Ussishkin: The Role of Prosodic
Templates in Diachrony
Part IV: Fundamental Controversies in Phonological Change
18: Paul Foulkes and Marilyn Vihman: First Language Acquisition and
Phonological Change
19: Tobias Scheer: How Diachronic is Synchronic Grammar? Crazy
Rules, Regularity, and Naturalness
20: Mark Hale, Madelyn Kissock, and Charles Reiss: An I-Language
Approach to Phonologization and Lexification
21: Betty S. Phillips: Lexical Diffusion in Historical
Phonology
22: Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero: Amphichronic Explanation and the Life
Cycle of Phonological Processes
23: Mark J. Jones: Individuals, Innovation, and Change
24: Alan C. L. Yu: The Role of Experimental Investigation in the
Explanation of Sound Change
Part V: Theoretical Historical Phonology
25: Patricia J. Donegan and Geoffrey S. Nathan: Natural Phonology
and Sound Change
26: Robert Mailhammer, David Restle, and Theo Vennemann: Preference
Laws in Phonological Change
27: Joan Bybee: Articulatory Processing and Frequency of Use in
Sound Change
28: Juliette Blevins: Evolutionary Phonology: a holistic approach
to sound change typology
29: B. Elan Dresher: Rule-based Generative Historical Phonology
30: Thomas C. Purnell and Eric Raimy: Distinctive Features, Levels
of Representation, and Historical Phonology
31: D. Eric Holt: Historical Sound Change in Optimality Theory:
achievements and challenges
32: Paul Kiparsky: Phonologization
Part VI: Sociolinguistic and Exogenous Factors in Historical
Phonology
33: Alexandra D'Arcy: Variation, Transmission, Incrementation
34: David Bowie and Malcah Yaeger-Dror: Phonological Change in Real
Time
35: Daniel Schreier: Historical Phonology and Koineisation
36: Fred R. Eckman and Gregory Iverson: Second Language Acquisition
and Phonological Change
37: Christian Uffmann: Loanword Adaptation
References
Indexes
Patrick Honeybone is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English
Language at the University of Edinburgh where his main interests
are historical phonology, phonological theory, and northern English
dialects. He has published articles in English Language and
Linguistics, Lingua, Language Sciences, and a range of other
journals. He is the main organizer of the annual Manchester
Phonology Meeting.
Joseph Salmons is the Lester W.J. "Smoky" Seifert Professor of
Germanic Linguistics. He is the author of A History of German, OUP
2012, and serves as executive editor of Diachronica: International
Journal of Historical Linguistics.
Honeybone and Salmons have succeeded in compiling a useable,
up-to-date, and comprehensive handbook that will prove an essential
resource to generations of students and scholars interested in and
working on any and all aspects of historical phonology.
*Robin Meyer, Journal of Linguistics*
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