I.-E. palatovelars before resonants in Balto-Slavic

Chapters in this book

1. I-XII I
2. Perceptual and conceptual factors in abductive innovations 1
3. Historical change and rule ordering in phonology 23
4. The acceptance of sound change by linguistic structure 43
5. A formal approach to the theory of fortition-lenition: a preliminary study 57
6. Some considerations on voicing with special reference to spirants in English and Dutch: a diachronic-contrastive approach 99
7. Child language and language change: a conjecture and some refutations 123
8. How much does performance contribute to phonological change? 145
9. The inter-relationship between phonological and grammatical change 159
10. Secondary split, typology, and universals 173
11. Constraints on schwa-deletion in American English 183
12. Phonological models and Slavic palatalizations 209
13. Restructuring, relexicalization, and reversion in historical phonology 213
14. "Diagonal" vowel harmony?: Some implications for historical phonology 221
15. I.-E. palatovelars before resonants in Balto-Slavic 237
16. Mapping constraints in phonological reconstruction: on climbing down trees without falling out of them 245
17. Notes on the history of accent in Japanese 287
18. Irregular sound change due to frequency in German 309
19. Phonostylistics and sound change 321
20. Perseverance in the English vowel shift 337
21. The origin of the Germanic dental preterit: Von Friesen revisited 349
22. The simplification of the unstressed vowel systems in Old High German 373
23. Rule inversion and lexical storage: The case of Sanskrit visarga 391
24. Is sound change teleological? 409
25. The distribution of short and long vowels in stems of the type Lith. ̇ésti: vèsti: mèsti and OCS jasti: vesti: mesti in Baltic and Slavic languages 431
26. Comment on W. Winter's paper 447
27. Index of names 449