Michael Hammond

The Phonology of English 'a Prosodic Optimality-Theoretic Approach'

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Produktbeschreibung

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 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 588g
• ISBN-13: 9780198700296
• ISBN-10: 0198700296
• Artikelnr.: 21705213

Autorenporträt

Michael Hammond is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona. He has also held the position of Assistant Professor at the universities of Arizona, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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 * 9Afterword * Some remaining issues
Statistics
Russian
Remaining issues
Further reading * References