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Lenition and Contrast
The Functional Consequences of Certain Phonetically Conditioned Sound Changes
Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
This book analyzes 153 languages from a large variety of families to establish a previously unexplored relationship between phonetically conditioned sound changes such as lenitions and functional (meaning maintenance related) considerations. Carefully collecting numerous inventories of consonants,...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge