Lexical Phonology and the History of English: 91 (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 91)

Lexical Phonology and the History of English:91 (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 91)

by: April McMahon (Author)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press; First Edition (13 April 2000)

Language: English

Print length: 322 pages

ISBN-10: 0521472806

ISBN-13: 9780521472807

Book Description

This book has two main goals:the re-establishment of a rule-based phonology as a viable alteative 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.