Phonological Weakness in English: From Old to Present-Day English (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change)

world Class Editor And Contributors Address The Phonetic, Phonological, Prosodic And Morphological Correlates Of Weakness, Illustrated With Historical And Dialectal Case Studies. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 List of Tables and Figures......Page 8 Notes on Contributors......Page 11 Introduction......Page 14 Part 1 Phonetic and Phonological Aspects of Weakness......Page 20 1 Treatments of Weakness in Phonological Theory......Page 22 2 Testing Consonant Weakness Phonetically......Page 42 Part 2 Diagnosing and Interpreting English Schwa(s)......Page 58 3 On Schwa: Synchronic Prelude and Historical Fugue......Page 60 4 The Phonetics of Schwa Vowels......Page 91 Part 3 Historical and Dialectal Case Studies......Page 110 5 Perspectives on Weakness from English /r/......Page 112 6 Weak Segments in Irish English......Page 129 7 Word-initial h- in Middle and Early Modern English......Page 143 8 Consonant or ‘Vowel’? A Diachronic Study of Initial from Early Middle English to Nineteenth-Century English......Page 181 Part 4 Prosodic and Morphological Correlates of Weakness......Page 210 9 Weak Segments and Syllable Structure in Middle English......Page 212 10 Orthographic Indications of Weakness in Early Middle English......Page 250 11 Inflectional Syncope vs. Epenthesis: Notes on the History of the Weak Preterite in English......Page 329 D......Page 360 J......Page 361 N......Page 362 W......Page 363 Z......Page 364 C......Page 365 G......Page 366 M......Page 367 R......Page 368 U......Page 369 Y......Page 370 Treatments of weakness in phonological theory / Kie Ross Zuraw Testing consonant weakness phonetically / Lisa Lavoie On schwa: synchronic prelude abd historical fugue / Roger Lass The phonetics of schwa vowels / Edward Fleming Perspectives on weakness from English /r/ / April McMahon Weak segments in Irish English / Raymond Hickey Word-initial h- in Middle nad Early Modern English / Paola Crisma Consonant or 'vowel'? A diachronic study of initial from Early Modern English to nineteenth-century English / Julia Schlüter Weak segments and syllable structure in Middle English / Julia Schlüter Orthographic indications of weakness in Early Middle English / Margaret Laing Inflectional syncope vs/ epenthesis: notes on the history of the weak preterite in English / Donka Minkova. Fresh empirical findings drawn from a variety of sources showcase the theoretical advances in the analysis of the history and present state of the sound system of English