Juliette Blevins was formerly Visiting Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, and joined the Department of Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, in Fall 2004.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. Preliminaries: 1. What is evolutionary phonology? 2. Evolution in language and elsewhere
3. Explanation in phonology: a brief history of ideas
Part II. Sound Patterns: 4. Laryngeal features
5. Place features
6. Other common sound patterns
7. The evolution of geminates
8. Some uncommon sound patterns
Part III. Implications: 9. Synchronic phonology
10. Diachronic phonology
11. Beyond phonology
References
Language index
Subject index.
