In amphichronic phonology, synchronic and diachronic explanation feed each other. The
architecture of grammar predicts the possible modes of implementation of phonological …

As the title of this part of the volume indicates, the study of sound change1 compels us to
think hard about the relationship between phonological structure and what lies beyond: the …

It is still unclear whether an individual's adoption of on-going sound change starts in
production or in perception, and what the time course of the adoption of sound change is in …

Within a linguistic continuum, the further from the irradiation centre, the later a language is
affected by a change; the later a language is reached by a change, the milder the outcomes …

Phonologization is o ten understood to be a process along the pathway of sound change
where low-level physiological or perceptual variation that gives rise to sound patterns is …

This chapter sets out a range of theoretical issues and empirical questions that arise when
the concept of compositionality and the fact of language change are juxtaposed. In its …

This article presents a theory of the initiation and incrementation mechanisms whereby
individual phonetic innovations become community-wide sound changes. The theory …

Abstract Language change is a central concern for any linguistic theory. For one thing, it is
often assumed that language change is explanatory, in that it provides a reasonable answer …

This chapter argues that Optimality Theory (OT) addresses issues of learnability more
effectively than other theories, and benefits from its ability to incorporate explicit predictive …

The life cycle of phonological processes (eg Bermúdez‐Otero 2015) provides an account of
how a sound change might develop over the history of a language, from its beginnings in the …