Research Catalog

Title

Lexical phonology and the history of English / April McMahon.

Author

McMahon, April M. S.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

xi, 309 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book has two main goals: the re-establishment of a rule-based phonology as a viable alternative to current non-derivational models, and the rehabilitation of historical evidence as a focus of phonological theory. Although Lexical Phonology includes several constraints, such as the Derived Environment Condition and Structure Preservation, intended to reduce abstractness, previous versions have not typically exploited these fully. The model of Lexical Phonology presented here imposes the Derived Environment Condition strictly; introduces a new constraint on the shape of underlying representations; excludes underspecification; and suggests an integration of Lexical Phonology with Articulatory Phonology. Together, these innovations ensure a substantially more concrete phonology."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 91

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 91.

Subjects

• History
• Englisch
• Lexical phonology
• English language > History
• English language > Phonology, Historical
• Lexicale fonologie
• Diachronische fonologie
• Engels
• Sprachwandel
• Sprachvariante
• Lexikalische Phonologie
• Dialektologie
• English language > Phonology
• 18.04 English language

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-301) and index.

Contents

1. The role 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.

ISBN

• 0521472806
• 9780521472807

LCCN

99028845

OCLC

• ocm41224059
• 41224059
• SCSB-1127916

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library