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.
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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 changes gave rise to these patterns.
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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.
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This book aims to re-establish a rule-based phonology and rehabilitate historical evidence as a focus of phonological theory.

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ISBN
9780521472807
Publisert
2000-04-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
640 gr
Høyde
237 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
29 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
322

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