Research on sound change often focuses on vowels, yet consonantal sound change also offers fascinating insights into language development and variation. This pioneering book provides a detailed ...

Coalescence is when two contiguous consonantal phonemes are replaced by a single phoneme which shares features of the two original ones. A common place this can occur is with affricates, for example ...

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Each phoneme is also a set. Given the subsets (sets within a set), we must consider Hawaiian phonemes to contain the subsets consonants and vowel, and the set of Hawaiian consonants to contain each ...