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Phonetics and Phonology
1. Introduction to Speech Sounds
2. Articulatory Phonetics
3. Acoustic Phonetics
4. Auditory Phonetics
5. Phonological Theory
6. Suprasegmental Phonology
7. Phonological Processes
8. Optimality Theory
9. Morphophonology
10. Phonological Acquisition
11. Sociophonetics
12. Historical Phonology
13. Cross-Linguistic Phonology
14. Laboratory Phonology
12.
Historical Phonology
12.1.
Sound Change Types
12.1.1.
Conditioned Changes
12.1.1.1.
Assimilation
12.1.1.2.
Dissimilation
12.1.1.3.
Epenthesis
12.1.1.4.
Deletion
12.1.2.
Unconditioned Changes
12.1.2.1.
Mergers
12.1.2.2.
Splits
12.1.2.3.
Shifts
12.1.3.
Chain Shifts
12.1.3.1.
Push Chains
12.1.3.2.
Drag Chains
12.1.3.3.
Circular Shifts
12.2.
Comparative Method
12.2.1.
Establishing Correspondences
12.2.2.
Reconstructing Proto-Forms
12.2.3.
Relative Chronology
12.2.4.
Sound Laws
12.3.
Internal Reconstruction
12.3.1.
Morphophonemic Alternations
12.3.2.
Analogical Leveling
12.3.3.
Paradigm Regularization
12.4.
Phonological Change Mechanisms
12.4.1.
Reanalysis
12.4.2.
Extension
12.4.3.
Borrowing Effects
12.4.4.
Contact-Induced Change
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