1975/06/01 by Douglas Q. Adams · 8 citations
Psychology · Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · Mathematics · #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Linguistics and language evolution #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Distribution (mathematics) #Psychology #History #Mathematics
paper · doi:10.2307/412855
published in Language 51(2), 282-292 (Linguistic Society of America)
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This paper is concerned with plotting the 13th and 14th century distribution of the retracted sibilants [S Z] in the languages of continental western and central Europe, as. well as Finland and parts of Greece. The investigation, based on both dialectological and philological evidence, shows the kind of detailed phonetic knowledge that is sometimes reconstructable when these two types of data are used in conjunction.