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Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion

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  • © 2006

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  1. Betty S. Phillips
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Word Frequency and the Neogrammarian Controversy

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    Pages 1-30

  3. The Lexical Diffusion of Phonetically Abrupt Changes

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    Pages 31-56

  4. The Lexical Diffusion of Phonetically Gradual Changes

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    Pages 57-95

  5. Lexical Diffusion and Word Class

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    Pages 96-123

  6. Analogy, Borrowing, and Lexical Diffusion

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    Pages 124-157

  7. Applications of Lexical Diffusion

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    Pages 158-180

  8. Conclusions, Connections, and Implications

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    Pages 181-196

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 197-252
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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.

About the author

BETTY S. PHILLIPS is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Indiana State University, USA. Her articles on the lexical diffusion of sound change have appeared in American Speech, Journal of English Linguistics, Language, Linguistics and Word.

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