Functional Load and Sound Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2896273 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert D King (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1967 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 831 |
| Publication date | 1967-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/411969 |
| OpenAlex | W1975628770 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 11 |
The idea that functional load offers a tool of potentially great explanatory power in diachronic linguistics is shared by a number of contemporary linguists, particularly those influenced at first or second hand by Prague. It is the purpose of the present paper to investigate the hypothesis that functional load plays a significant role in sound change. I will attempt to demonstrate that functional load, if it is a factor in sound change at all, is one of the least important of those we know anything about, and that it is best disregarded in discussions centering on the cause and direction of phonological change
Acoustics · Linguistics · Physics · Sound (geography) · Sound change · Linguistic research and analysis · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy · Psychology
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Functional Load and the Teaching of Pronunciation
Origins Of Sound Change Approaches To Phonologization
High functional load inhibits phonological contrast loss
Die Graphematik der Morpheme im Deutschen und Englischen
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Chain shifts and transphonologizations are driven by homophony avoidance
The Role of Phonology in Phonetic Change
The impact of functional load and phoneme position on automated pronunciation assessment in young Korean EFL learners
The functional load principle in ESL pronunciation instruction
The impact of functional load and cumulative errors on listeners' judgments of comprehensibility and accentedness
The relation between order of acquisition, segmental frequency and function
Notes / Notizen — Discussion / Diskussion
Across-Language Perspective on Speech Information Rate
Place Variation in the Consonant System
Competing Changes as a Cause of Residue
Conceptualizing Pronunciation As Part of Translingual/Transcultural Competence
Exemplar models, evolution and language change
Tonogenesis
Perspektiven der diachronen linguistik
Neutralization and anti-homophony in Korean
How much homophony is normal
Economie des changements phonétiques. Traité de phonologie diachronique [The economy of phonetic changes; Treatise of diachronic phonology]
Bridging phonological system and lexicon
Relative importance of stress correlates in native listeners' identification of Spanish lexical stress produced by monolingual and bilingual speakers
A community-based test of a linguistic hypothesis
The Medieval Sibilants
Criteria for Phonetic Similarity
Quantity and Quality in the Vowel-System of Vulgar Latin
Some controversial questions in phonological theory
The Problem of Old Bulgarian Št
The Linguistic School of Prague
The Short Vowel Systems of Northern Switzerland
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The Vowel System of Icelandic
A Manual of Phonology
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,58 |
| Citation span | 1969 - 2026 (58) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |