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Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion

Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion - Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change

2006

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781403932327
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 2006
DEWEY: 414
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 252
Weight: 490g
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Spine width: 19mm