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...
| Основен автор: | McMahon, April M. S. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Серия: |
Cambridge studies in linguistics ;
91. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=77554 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Lexical phonology and the history of English. |
Съдържание:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; 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/; Bibliography; Index.