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Title

The phonology of English : a prosodic optimality-theoretic approach / Michael Hammond.

Author

Hammond, Michael, 1957-

Publication

Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Description

xiii, 368 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• This book 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 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.

Series Statement

The phonology of the world's languages

Uniform Title

Phonology of the world's languages.

Subjects

• Prosodie (taalkunde)
• Anglais (Langue) > Phonologie
• Engels
• Anglais (langue) > Phonologie
• Optimality theory
• English language > Phonology
• Fonologie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-344) and indexes.

Contents

1. Some Basic Ideas -- The sounds of English; Characterizing the sounds of English; Phonological generalizations; Treating phonological generalizations; Optimality Theory; Further reading -- 2. Syllables Intuitive evidence for the syllable; Distributional evidence for a syllable; A general theory of the syllable; Further reading -- 3. English Syllables: margins and consonants Word onsets; Word-final clusters; Medial clusters; Clusters vs. margins; Linear restrictions;Summary; Further reading -- 4. English syllables: peaks and moras Vowels and diphthongs; Co-occurrence restrictions; Mora-based restrictions; Syllabic consonants and [r]; Summary; Further reading -- 5. Stress, Accent, and Feet What is stress?; What is a metrical foot?; Intuitive evidence for the foot; Distributional evidence for the foot; General theory of the foot; Further reading -- 6. Syllables and Stress Basic distributional regularities; The analysis; Summary; Further reading -- 7. The Rightmost Stress Review of previous results; The basic analysis; The role of syllable weight; Other nominal stress patterns; Final syllables; Verbs and adjectives; Summary; Further reading -- 8. Other Stresses Other stresses; Long vowels; Nonfinal primary stress; Morphemes and feet; Summary; Further reading -- 9. Afterword Some remaining issues; Statistics; Russian; Remaining issues; Further reading -- Reference.s

ISBN

• 0198237979 (acid-free paper)
• 9780198237976 (acid-free paper)
• 0198700296 (pbk.)
• 9780198700296 (pbk.)

LCCN

98048472

OCLC

• ocm40113523
• 40113523

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries