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The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology

Part I. Introduction and context
1. Introduction and overview. Patrick Honeybone & Joseph Salmons
2. A history of historical phonology Robert Murray
Part II. Sources of evidence in historical phonology.
3. Phonological Reconstruction. Anthony Fox
4. Interpreting alphabetic orthographies and orthographic change. Roger Lass
5. Interpreting diffuse orthographies and orthographic change. J. Marshall Unger
6. What texts tell us about how to pronounce them. Orrin W. Robinson
7. Crosslinguistic patterns: the role of typology in establishing sound change data. Paul D. Fallon
8. Using electronic corpora for historical phonology. Warren Maguire
9. Simulation as an investigative tool in historical phonology. Andrew Wedel
10. Computational and quantitative approaches to historical phonology. Brett Kessler
Part III. Basic tendencies and types of change
11. Types of phonological change. Andras Cser
12. Analogy and morphophonological change. David Fertig
13. Change in stress patterns. Aditi Lahiri
14. Tonogenesis and tone change. Martha Ratliff
15. Prosodic/templatic change. Robert D. Hoberman
16. Quantity change. Astrid Kraehenmann
Part IV. Issues in accounting for phonological change
17. Historical phonology and ‘explanation’. April McMahon
18. Articulatory processing and frequency of use in sound change. Joan Bybee
19. Lexical diffusion in historical phonology. Betty S. Phillips
20. Investigating sound change in the laboratory. Alan C.L. Yu
21. The role of language acquisition in phonological change. Marilyn Vihman & Paul Foulkes
22. Phonological change in real time. Malcah Yaeger-Dror
23. Infantilisms, variation and change in the individual. Mark J. Jones
Part V. Theoretical Historical Phonology
24. Structuralist historical phonology: Shifts, mergers, splits. Joseph Salmons & Patrick Honeybone
25. Chain shifts, mergers and near-mergers as changes in progress. Matthew J. Gordon
26. Natural phonology and change. Geoffrey Nathan & Patricia Donegan
27. Preference laws and phonological change. Theo Vennemann
28. Evolutionary Phonology. Juliette Blevins
29. Rule-based generative historical phonology. B. Elan Dresher
30. Segmental structure, representation and historical phonology. Tobias Scheer
31. Optimality Theory and historical phonology. D. Eric Holt
32. Analogical change: insights from stratal-cyclic theories of phonology. Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero
33. Why phonological change is neither ‘phonological’ nor ‘change’. Mark Hale & Charles Reiss
34. Phonologization. Paul Kiparsky
Part VI. Sociolinguistics and exogenous factors in Historical Phonology
35. Transmission and incrementation. Alexandra D'Arcy
36. Koineisation and historical phonology. Daniel Schreier
37. Second language acquisition and phonological change: interlingual and intergenerational language contact. John Archibald
38. Loanword adaptation. Christian Uffmann

Edited by
Patrick Honeybone
and Joseph C. Salmons