Principles and Methods in Historical Phonology

Download or read book Principles and Methods in Historical Phonology written by Marc Picard and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arapaho, a western Algonkian language, is still spoken on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Phonologically modern Arapaho looks very "un-Algonkian," for it has undergone a rather startling number of sound changes. In this study Marc Picard attempts to use the phonological history of Arapaho as a vehicle to explore various possibilities for making accurate inferences about the chronological order of sound changes. His ultimate goal is to provide a methodology that can be applied successfully to other languages that, like Arapaho, have no recorded history.