Lexical phonology and the history of English
English language Lexical phonology Anglais (Langue) Phonologie lexicale LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Dialektologie Lexikalische Phonologie Sprachwandel Sprachvariante History sähkökirjat
Cambridge University Press
2000
EISBN 9780511010026
Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 The rôle of history; 2 Constraining the model: current controversies in Lexical Phonology; 3 Applying the constraints: the Modern English Vowel Shift Rule; 4 Synchrony, diachrony and Lexical Phonology: the Scottish Vowel Length Rule; 5 Dialect differentiation in Lexical Phonology: the unwelcome effects of underspecification; 6 English /r/; Bibliography; Index;
This book analyses some differences between English, Scottish and American accents of English, shows how they developed and why they have their current form. Although the revised version of lexical phonology presented here is intended to describe present-day patterns, it shows how historical sound changes gave rise to these patterns.
This book analyses some differences between English, Scottish and American accents of English, shows how they developed and why they have their current form. Although the revised version of lexical phonology presented here is intended to describe present-day patterns, it shows how historical sound changes gave rise to these patterns.
