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The Phonology of English - A Prosodic Optimality-Theoretic Approach (Paperback)
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The Phonology of English - A Prosodic Optimality-Theoretic Approach (Paperback)
Series: The Phonology of the World's Languages
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The Phonology of English offers a new approach to English
phonology. It focuses on the prosody of the language, i.e. syllable
and foot structure, and does so from an optimality-theoretic (OT)
perspective. The focus is on surface distributional regularities
and the results presented are based on extensive searches through
various computerized lexicons. The outcome is a number of new
generalizations about the phonology of English, along with
confirmation of some familiar regularities. All of these empirical
results are discussed in detail and presented in extensive charts
with a plethora of examples. The Phonology of English also offers a
unique OT analysis. This provides a detailed introduction to the
intricacies of the theory as applied to a significant amount of
data. A number of important theoretical proposals are developed in
this model, and the analysis presents the idea that certain complex
constraints and their ranking can be derived in restricted ways
from more basic constraints. In addition, the book also develops
the idea that syllables of English can contain from zero to three
moras. It is suggested that the phonology of English only makes
sense if partial morphemes of the cranberry sort are licensed more
widely. The book is thus intended as a detailed presentation of
novel empirical results about the sound system of English, along
with important theoretical results about phonological theory.
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