This publication is a large-scale application of Henning Andersen's theory of language and language change; a theory built on both C.S. Pierce's semiotic conceptual apparatus and the structural lingustics of Roman Jakobson, including his particular theory of distinctive features. Implementing the above framework consistently in this book, the author provides a possible explanation and understanding of both the origin and the specific course of the so-called onbin sound changes in Japanese, revealing relevant and interesting features of a subject hiterto not well understood.
