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28.1 Evolutionary Phonology and Sound Change Typology 28.1 Evolutionary Phonology and Sound Change Typology
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28.2 The Phonetic Basis of Sound Change 28.2 The Phonetic Basis of Sound Change
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28.3 Regular Sound Change without Phonetic Motivation? 28.3 Regular Sound Change without Phonetic Motivation?
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28.3.1 Apparent Cases? 28.3.1 Apparent Cases?
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28.3.2 Real Cases? 28.3.2 Real Cases?
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28.4 Where Phonetic Motivation is Not Enough 28.4 Where Phonetic Motivation is Not Enough
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28.4.1 Pre-existing Contrast as Catalyst 28.4.1 Pre-existing Contrast as Catalyst
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28.4.2 Pre-existing Gap as Catalyst 28.4.2 Pre-existing Gap as Catalyst
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28.4.3 Pre-existing Structure as Catalyst 28.4.3 Pre-existing Structure as Catalyst
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28.4.4 Predictability as Catalyst for Lenition/Loss 28.4.4 Predictability as Catalyst for Lenition/Loss
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28.4.5 Lexical Competition as an Inhibitor 28.4.5 Lexical Competition as an Inhibitor
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28.5 Concluding Remarks 28.5 Concluding Remarks
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28 Evolutionary Phonology: A Holistic Approach to Sound Change Typology
Get accessJuliette Blevins is a Professor of Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center where she directs the Endangered Language Initiative. Her theory of Evolutionary Phonology (CUP, 2004) synthesizes work in sound change, phonetics, and typology, offering new explanations for a wide range of sound patterns and their distributions. Blevins has areal expertise in Austronesian, Australian Aboriginal, Native American, and Andamanese languages, and is currently working on reconstruction of Proto-Ongan and Proto-Basque
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Published:01 April 2014
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Abstract
Evolutionary Phonology is the study of synchronic sound patterns as partial reflections of their evolution or history, with a central focus on explanations for sound pattern typology, including: why certain sound patterns are common while others are rare; factors determining similar sound patterns across languages; and the striking identity between recurrent context-dependent instances of sound change and recurrent alternation types. In addition to identifying phonetic bases of sound change, Evolutionary Phonology suggests phonetic and non-phonetic factors that may inhibit or facilitate particular types of change.
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