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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McMahon, April M. S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Colección:Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 91.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminaries; 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.