Lexical Phonology and the History of English
This book analyzes some differences among English, Scottish and American accents of English, and 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 can also show how historical sound changes gave rise to these patterns.
Product details
December 2006Paperback
9780521034487
324 pages
228 × 151 × 18 mm
0.482kg
27 b/w illus. 3 tables
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Table of 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.