3 Sound change: The regularity hypothesis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents XI
4. List of figures XXI
5. List of illustrations XXV
6. List of maps XXVII
7. 1 Introduction 1
8. 2 Phonetics, transcription, terminology, abbreviations, glosses 13
9. 3 Sound change: The regularity hypothesis 38
10. 4 Sound change and its phonological implications 60
11. 5 Types of sound change 70
12. 6 Analogical and phonological change 191
13. 7 Morphological change 279
14. 8 Semantic change 369
15. 9 Lexical borrowing 408
16. 10 Lexical change 451
17. 11 Syntactic change 473
18. 12 Dialect interaction and dialectology 579
19. 13 Language contact 630
20. 14 Comparative linguistics and reconstruction 763
21. 15 Linguistic change: Its nature and causes 905
22. Notes 937
23. References 963
24. Index 1049