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Quantity Adjustment: Vowel Lengthening and Shortening in Early Middle English: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

Autor Nikolaus Ritt
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 noi 2005
This is a unified account of all quantity changes affecting English stressed vowels during the early Middle English period. Dr Ritt discusses homorganic lengthening, open syllable lengthening, trisyllabic shortening, and shortening before consonant clusters. The study is based on a statistical analysis of Modern English reflexes of the changes. The complete corpus of analysed data is made available to the reader in the appendices. All of the changes discussed are shown to derive from basically the same set of quasi-universal tendencies, while apparent idiosyncrasies are shown to follow from factors that are independent of the underlying tendencies themselves. The role of tendencies, i.e. probabilistic laws in the description of language change, is given thorough theoretical treatment. In his aim to account for the changes as well as trace their chronology, Dr Ritt applies principles of natural phonology, and examines the conflict between phonological and morphological 'necessities'.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521022910
ISBN-10: 0521022916
Pagini: 220
Ilustrații: 13 tables
Dimensiuni: 154 x 228 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface; 1. Approaching the changes; 2. Reconstructing OSL; 3. Widening the meaning of OSL; 4. A suprasegmental view of OSL; 5. Summary: OSL refined; 6. Homorganic lengthening; 7. Shortenings; 8. Epilogue: explaining Middle English quantity adjustment; Notes; References; Appendices; Index.

Descriere

This book presents a unified account of all quantity changes affecting stressed vowels in early Middle English.