Phonological weakness in English
Subtitle: from Old to present-day English
By: edited by Donka Minkova
Series: Palgrave studies in language history and language change
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Basingstoke, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780230524750
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Treatments of weakness in phonological theory / Kie Ross Zuraw; title: Testing consonant weakness phonetically / Lisa Lavoie; title: On schwa: synchronic prelude abd historical fugue / Roger Lass; title: The phonetics of schwa vowels / Edward Fleming; title: Perspectives on weakness from English /r/ / April McMahon; title: Weak segments in Irish English / Raymond Hickey; title: Word-initial h- in Middle nad Early Modern English / Paola Crisma; title: Consonant or 'vowel'? A diachronic study of initial<h> from Early Modern English to nineteenth-century English / Julia Schlüter; title: Weak segments and syllable structure in Middle English / Julia Schlüter; title: Orthographic indications of weakness in Early Middle English / Margaret Laing; title: Inflectional syncope vs/ epenthesis: notes on the history of the weak preterite in English / Donka Minkova.