Cantonese sound change across subgroups of the Hong Kong speech community
粤语在香港不同社会组合中的语音变化
Robert S. Bauer 包睿舜

Abstract 摘要
The problem of sound change remains an unresolved controversy in linguistics. Two conflicting views of sound change oppose one another with the neogrammarians on the one hand confronting the lexical diffusionists on the other. The lexical diffusion theory of sound change receives support from the following paper which looks closely at two sound changes in progress in Hong Kong Cantonese and reports findings from a study which indicates lexical diffusion as the means of implementation for these two sound changes. This introduction, however, first identifies what the lexical diffusionists regard as errors in the neogrammarian conception of sound change and then examines some of the criticisms which have been made against lexical diffusion.

本论文结合了有关音变的词汇扩散理论和社会语言学的研究方法，从语音性，词汇性和社会性这三个方面，对香港粤语里的两个音的音变过程进行了微观共时的研究。

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