| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 309 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 91
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Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 91.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-301) and index. |
| Contents |
Preliminaries; Contents; 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- Phonology, Historical.
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English language -- Phonology, Historical. |
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English language -- History.
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English language. |
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History. |
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Lexical phonology.
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Lexical phonology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McMahon, April M.S. Lexical phonology and the history of English. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521472806 (DLC) 99028845 (OCoLC)41224059 |
| ISBN |
0511010028 (electronic book) |
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9780511010026 (electronic book) |
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0511037813 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511037818 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511053053 |
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9780511053054 |
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9780521472807 (hardback) |
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0521472806 (hardback) |
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9780511486432 (electronic book) |
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051148643X (electronic book) |
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1280416874 |
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9781280416873 |
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