Must sound change be linguistically motivated?

Diachronica

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 219-269

  Blust, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuation problem; Austronesian languages; Bizarre reflexes; Dissimilation; Hypercorrection; Linguistic motivation; Phonetic motivation; Sound change

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144480589     PISSN: 01764225     EISSN: 15699714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/dia.22.2.02blu     Document Type: Review

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