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This project investigates how sound changes in languages occur by examining the cognitive, social, and phonetic factors that influence dialect evolution. Through experiments and computational modeling, it aims to understand the gradual process of sound change using dialect pairs from various language families.
In William Shakespeare's times, 'knee' and 'knot' were pronounced with a /k/, just like German does today.
But why did English and not German drop the /k/?
This question is part of the actuation of sound change, recognised as one of the greatest challenges in linguistics, and which is about explaining why sound change happens, and why languages can follow such different paths of sound change.
The actuation puzzle remains unsolved principally because the beginning of sound change is so gradual th…
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