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Lexical Phonology and the History of English

Lexical Phonology and the History of English

Lexical Phonology and the History of English

April McMahon, University of Cambridge
December 2006
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Paperback
9780521034487

    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.

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    December 2006
    Paperback
    9780521034487
    324 pages
    228 × 151 × 18 mm
    0.482kg
    27 b/w illus. 3 tables
    Available

    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.
      Author
    • April McMahon , University of Cambridge