Lexical Strata in English : Morphological Causes, Phonological Effects.

Lexical Strata in English : Morphological Causes, Phonological Effects.

Heinz Giegerich investigates the way in which alternations in the sound patterns of words interact with the processes of word formation in a language. He develops a coherent theory of 'base-driven' stratification, which offers new accounts of some central phenomena in the phonology of Engl...

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Main Author: Giegerich, Heinz J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series:Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 89.
Subjects:
Lexicology.
English language > Morphology.
English language > Phonology.
English language > Morphology
English language > Phonology
Lexicology
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 A requiem for Lexical Phonology?; 2 Affix-driven stratification: the grand illusion; 3 Principles of base-driven stratification; 4 Deriving the Strict Cyclicity Effect; 5 Phonology and the literate speaker: orthography in Lexical Phonology; 6 [r]-sandhi and liaison in RP; 7 Input vowels to [r]-sandhi: RP and London English; 8 Syllables and strata; Notes; List of references; Subject index; Index of words, roots and affixes.

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