Tracking word frequency effects through 130 years of sound change

Contemporary New Zealand English has distinctive pronunciations of three characteristic vowels. Did the evolution of these distinctive pronunciations occur in all words at the same time or were different words affected differently? We analyze the changing pronunciation of New Zealand English in a la...

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Main Authors: Hay, J, Pierrehumbert, J, Walker, A, LaShell, P
Format: Journal article
Published: Elsevier 2015