Lexical Phonology and the history of English

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 c...

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Tác giả chính: McMahon, April
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spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-345002014-01-20T03:37:06Z Lexical Phonology and the history of English McMahon, April Phonology Lexitcal 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. 1 The roÃle of history 1 1.1 Internal and external evidence 1 1.2 Lexical Phonology and its predecessor 5 1.3 Alternative models 13 1.4 The structure of the book 33 2 Constraining the model: current controversies in Lexical Phonology 35 2.1 Lexical Phonology and Morphology: an overview 35 2.2 Why constraints? Halle and Mohanan (1985) 50 2.3 Current controversies 53 3 Applying the constraints: the Modern English Vowel Shift Rule 86 3.1 Introduction 86 3.2 The Vowel Shift Rule and the Derived Environment Condition 88 3.3 Problems for lax-vowel Vowel Shift Rule 94 3.4 Problems for Level 1 Vowel Shift Rule 127 4 Synchrony, diachrony and Lexical Phonology: the Scottish Vowel Length Rule 140 4.1 Introduction 140 4.2 A brief external history of Scots and Scottish Standard English 141 4.3 The Scots dialects and Scottish Standard English: synchronic linguistic characteristics 145 ix x List of contents 4.4 Internal history 151 4.5 The Scottish Vowel Length Rule in Present-Day Scots and Scottish Standard English 170 4.6 From sound change to phonological rule 195 5 Dialect differentiation in Lexical Phonology: the unwelcome effects of underspeci®cation 205 5.1 Introduction 205 5.2 Length, tenseness and English vowel systems 206 5.3 For and against the identity hypothesis 209 5.4 Underspeci®cation 215 6 English /r/ 230 6.1 Introduction 230 6.2 English /r/: a brief outline 231 6.3 Non-rhotic /r/: an insertion analysis 234 6.4 Alternative analyses 247 6.5 Synchronic arbitrariness and diachronic transparency 264 6.6 Lexical Phonology and English /r/ 277 6.7 Retrospect and p[r]ospect 283 Bibliography 286 Index 302 2013-07-12T07:15:11Z 2013-07-12T07:15:11Z 2000 Book http://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/34500 en application/pdf Cambridge University
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McMahon, April
Lexical Phonology and the history of English
description 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.
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title Lexical Phonology and the history of English
title_short Lexical Phonology and the history of English
title_full Lexical Phonology and the history of English
title_fullStr Lexical Phonology and the history of English
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url http://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/34500
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