Lexical phonology and the history of English:
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Main Author: McMahon, April M. S. 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000
Series:Cambridge studies in linguistics 91
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-301) and index
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 309 pages)
ISBN:0511010028
0511037813
0511053053
051148643X
0521472806
9780511010026
9780511037818
9780511053054
9780511486432
9780521472807

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