Causes of rapid phonological change: the case of Atsina and its relatives

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dc.contributor.authorPentland, David H
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-13T19:36:03Z
dc.date.available2016-06-13T19:36:03Z
dc.date.issued1979-05
dc.description.abstractThe cause of change has always been one of the great unanswered questions of linguistics. It is easy enough to describe the effects of a particular change, but the theories that have been advanced to account for the change's arising in the first place range from the laughable to the merely inadequate. Istvan Fodor (1965) suggests a distinction between internal and external factors. Internal causes of change are the "inherent laws" of a language which cause it to change in a particular way. Fodor observes (15) that the nature of such laws has not been elucidated; nor can it be -- the question is circular: Language X has changed in a certain manner because it was the inherent tendency of that language to do so. Among the external factors examined by Fodor are the effects of history, culture, society, geography, neighbouring peoples, and the national character. Some of these are undoubtedly major conditioners of phonological and other linguistic change, but others are merely coincidental and unrelated to linguistic developments.en_US
dc.description.refereedYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationPentland, D. H. (1979). Causes of rapid phonological change: the case of Atsina and its relatives. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 5(Spring), 99-138.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/29006
dc.identifier.issn2371-2643
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/51277
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.publisher.departmentLinguisticsen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.subjectLinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectPhonologyen_US
dc.subjectAtsina languageen_US
dc.subjectAlgonquian languagesen_US
dc.titleCauses of rapid phonological change: the case of Atsina and its relativesen_US
dc.typejournal article
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