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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455642703321

Autore

McMahon April M. S.

Titolo

Lexical phonology and the history of English / / April McMahon [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-107-11252-4

0-511-01002-8

1-280-41687-4

0-511-17237-0

0-511-15091-1

0-511-48643-X

0-511-31039-0

0-511-05305-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in linguistics ; ; 91

Disciplina

421/.5

Soggetti

English language - Phonology, Historical

English language - History

Lexical phonology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.