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 ...

Associate professor of Hispanic and Romance linguistics at UC Berkeley Justin Davidson contributed to a study revealing where ...

de Wolf, Gaelan Dodds 1983. A comparison of phonetically-ordered phonological variables in two major Canadian urban surveys. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol. 13, Issue. 2, p. 90 ...

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 ...

Stern elucidates the collaborative nature of creating these manuscripts involving multiple people like the sofer (“scribe”), who writes the consonantal text of the Torah; the nakdan ...

No one knows how human language began, although there are many theories. However, we do know something about the linguistic roots of languages. English, for example, is one of a group of languages in ...