The history of final vowels in English : the sound of muting /

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Minkova, Donka, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, 1991.
Colección:Topics in English linguistics ; 4.
Temas:
English language > Vowels.
Anglais (Langue) > Voyelles.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Phonetics & Phonology.
English language > Vowels
Schwa
Schwa.
Engels.
Englisch.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Schwa in the history of English
  • 1.1. Problems involved in the present study
  • 1.2. Forces at play in schwa loss
  • 1.3. Remarks on method
  • 1.4. Analytical procedures
  • Chapter 2. More background: Accounts of schwa loss
  • 2.1. Choice of sources
  • 2.2. Lorenz Morsbach (1896): Mittelenglische Grammatik
  • 2.3. Karl Luick (1921â€?1940): Historische Grammatik der englischen Sprache
  • 2.4. Richard Jordan: (1934/1968) Handbuch der mittelenglischen Grammatik
  • 2.5. Wilhelm Horn/Martin Lehnert (1954): Laut und Leben. Englische Lautgeschichte der neueren Zeit (1400â€?1950)2.6. Karl Brunner (1962): Die englische Sprache, ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung. Vols. I, II
  • 2.7. Joseph Wright and E.M. Wright (1923): An Elementary Middle English Grammar
  • 2.8. Fernand Mossé (1949): Manuel de lâ€?anglais du moyen ÃØge
  • 2.9. Jacek Fisiak (1970): A Short Grammar of Middle English
  • 2.10. Peter Erdmann (1972): Tiefenphonologische Lautgeschichte der englischen Vokale
  • 2.11. Summary
  • Chapter 3. Textual evidence
  • 3.1. Principles and methods specific to the study of schwa loss in Middle English3.2. Types of evidence
  • 3.3. Graphically marked morpho-syntactic loss of -e
  • 3.4. Unetymological final -e
  • 3.5. Elision in hiatus
  • 3.6. Rhyme evidence
  • 3.7. Scribal errors, editorial corrections
  • 3.8. Graphically unmarked evidence
  • Chapter 4. Phonological aspects of schwa loss
  • 4.1. The phonemic status of schwa in Middle English
  • 4.2. The Middle phonemic inventory
  • 4.3. Distribution
  • 4.4. Phonetic parameters. Distinctive features
  • 4.5. Phonological correlates of schwa loss4.6. Some consequences
  • Chapter 5. Morphological aspects of schwa loss
  • 5.1. The morpho-syntactic functions of schwa
  • 5.2. The morphologization of schwa loss
  • 5.3. Classification and ranking of factors for schwa loss
  • 5.4. Syntactic correlates
  • 5.5. Extralinguistic factors
  • 5.6. Hierarchy of factors within individual word classes
  • Chapter 6. Early schwa deletion as a prosodic phenomenon
  • 6.1. Early schwa loss data
  • 6.2. The shared properties of early schwa loss
  • 6.3. The rhythmic phrasing of early schwa deletion6.4. The Early Schwa Deletion Rule
  • Chapter 7. Schwa preservation in Late Middle English as a prosodic phenomenon
  • 7.1. Final -e in weak adjectival inflexions
  • 7.2. The weak adjectives in Chaucer
  • 7.3. The weak adjectives in non-Chaucerian Late Middle English
  • 7.4. Accounts of adjectival schwa preservation
  • 7.5. The rhythmic nature of final -e
  • 7.6. The metrical structure of adjectival phrases
  • 7.7. The proposal reviewed: objections
  • 7.8. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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