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

• Autore: McMahon April M. S.
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 421/.5
• Soggetto topico: English language - Phonology, Historical; English language - History; Lexical phonology
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Lexical Phonology & the History of English
• Titolo autorizzato: Lexical phonology and the history of English
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455642703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge studies in linguistics ; ; 91.