On the Evaluation of Competing Analyses in Historical Phonology: Naturalness, Minimality and the Case of Armenian /erk/  

Oleh:

Picard, Marc

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 12 no. 1 (1990), page 85-99.
Fulltext: 12_01_Picard.pdf (731.04KB)

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The degree of accuracy and reliability achieved in reconstructing any part of the phonological history of a language will depend largely on the extent to which certain principles of phonological change are respected. It will be argued here that the two most important constraints on any proposed sound change are noturolness and minimality. Since the plausibility of any historical reconstruction stems mainly from the ability to consistently distinguish sound changes from (diachronic) sound correspondences on the basis of these two factors, examples from Western Romance will be given to show how these principles can be applied to the best advantage, and a new solution will be proposed to the problem of deriving /erk/ from *dw in Armenian.

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