English Phonology and Phonological Theory - Synchronic and Diachronic Studies

Klappentext Dr Lass examines certain crucial issues in phonological and general linguistic theory through detailed studies of English phonetics! dialectology and language-history. Zusammenfassung Dr Lass examines certain crucial issues in phonological and general linguistic theory through detailed studies of English phonetics! dialectology and language-history. He argues that contemporary 'standard' phonological theory is inhibited and misled by the related disadvantages of an artificially constrained formalism and a restricted database. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Vowel Contrasts and their Deployment in English: 'Length' and 'System': 1. On the 'two kinds of vowels' in English; 2. Rules, metarules, and the shape of the Great Vowel Shift; 3. The Great Vowel Shift and its aftermath in the North Midlands; Part II. Expanding the Database: The Yield of Comparative Method: 4. What kind of vowel was Middle English /a/ and what really happened to it?; 5. Middle English /c/ in New York City English; Part III. Issues in General theory: Features, Rules and Classes: 6. On the phonological characterization of [?] and [h]; 7. Complementary modes of description in phonology; Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Lass
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521113243
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11324-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics