Journal Papers

One Hundred Years of Sound Change in Philadelphia: Linear Incrementation, Reversal, and Reanalysis

William Labov , Ingrid Rosenfelder and Josef Fruehwald (2013)

Abstract

The study of sound change in progress in Philadelphia has been facilitated by the application of forced alignment and automatic vowel measurement to a large corpus of neighborhood studies, including 379 speakers with dates of birth from 1888 to 1991. Two of the sound changes active in the 1970s show

Published Language 89.1 p30-65

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Cross Derivational Feeding is Epiphenomenal

Josef Fruehwald and Kyle Gorman (2011)

Abstract

Bakovic (2005) proposes that patterns of sufficiently-similar segment avoidance are the result of interacting agreement and antigemination constraints, a pattern known as cross-derivational feeding (CDF). The bleeding interactions between epenthesis and assimilation which prevent adjacent sufficiently-similar segments in English are shown to follow, however, from extragrammatical considerations. Several case studies

Presented at NAPhC 6, ILLS 2 [PDF]

Published Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 2011:36-50

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