Study of Phonology, Grammar and Semantic Changes within Historical Linguistics

This paper examines the study of phonology in historical linguistics, the ways through which it evolves. In a specific language, words and their meaning changes over time. There exist various reasons for such changes such as one generation’s meaning of a particular word varies from another reason. This research analyses the history of historical linguistics and what it is all about. The findings of the research article reveal that the study of phonology is important to know the development of the sound structure. This article discusses various doctrines related to the study of phonology such as dependency phonology, metrical phonology, lexicon phonology, and the unit of phonological sound speech known as phonemes.