LINGUIST List 15.746

Mon Mar 1 2004

Books: Phonetics: Stuart-Smith

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1. tom.perridge, Phonetics and Philology: Stuart-Smith

Title: Phonetics and Philology
Subtitle: Sound Change in Italic
			
Publication Year: 2004
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
		http://www.oup.com/us
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Book URL: http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-925773-6 

Author: Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow 

Hardback: ISBN: 0199257736, Pages: 288, Price: �45.00

			
Abstract:

This book presents an exhaustive treatment of a long-standing problem
of Proto-Indo-European and Italic philology, the development of the
Proto-Indo-European voiced aspirates in the ancient languages of
Italy. In so doing, it tackles a central issue of historical
linguistics, the plausibility of explanations for sound change. The
book argues that a solution to the problem can only be offered by
combining the results of a traditional philological investigation with
the resources of a neighbouring discipline, experimental phonetics. It
will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of historical
and comparative linguistics, the languages of ancient Italy, and
Indo-European, as well as phoneticians and phonologists.


Lingfield(s):	Historical Linguistics
		Phonetics 			

Subject Language(s):	Italian (Language code: ITN)

Written In:	English (Language Code: ENG)


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