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Publication details [#47273]

Salmons, Joe. 1992. Accentual Change and Language Contact. A Comparative Survey and a Case Study of Northern Europe. Routledge.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

accent1 | crosslinguistic perspective | language change | language contact | social context

Annotation

This book deals with accent shift, attrition and merging across the world and in all social contexts, presenting a case study of a proposed shared Celtic-Germanic accent system in prehistoric European proto-language.