April Mcmahon

Lexical Phonology and the History of English

Herausgeber: Austin, P.; Bresnan, J.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to re-establish a rule-based phonology and rehabilitate historical evidence as a focus of phonological theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780521034487
• ISBN-10: 0521034485
• Artikelnr.: 21878444

Inhaltsangabe

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.