Essays on the Sound Pattern of English
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1975
X, 590 pages
978-90-272-7087-0 (ISBN)
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This book is a collection of readings in phonological theory with special reference to English. The essays it contains are all concerned to a significant extent with discussion and criticism of the theory of phonology developed by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle in their monograph The Sound Pattern of English. The aim in compiling this collection has been to bring together new papers, and papers that were previously only available in informal duplicated form or in comparatively inaccessible publications. This collection is of value to anyone teaching or studying English or general linguistics who wishes to make a serious study of current phonological theory, and serves as a reference anthology of permanent value to the specialist.
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- ESSAYS ON THE SOUND PATTERN OF ENGLISH
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- PREFACE
- Table of contents
- GENERAL INTRODUCTION
- REFERENCES
- Part one. The Sound Pattern of English reviewed
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. THE NEW PHONOLOGICAL PARADIGM
- 2. REVIEW OF THE SOUND PATTERN OF ENGLISH
- 3. REVIEW OF THE SOUND PATTERN OF ENGLISH
- CHAPTER THREE
- CHAPTER FOUR
- PHONOLOGICAL THEORY: CHAPTERS SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE
- REFERENCES
- 4. REVIEW OF THE SOUND PATTERN OF ENGLISH
- REFERENCES
- Part two. The Stress System of English
- INTRODUCTION
- 5. SOME PROBLEMS IN THE DESCRIPTION OF ENGLISH ACCENTUATION
- REFERENCES
- 6. ENGLISH WORD STRESS AND PHRASE STRESS
- INTRODUCTION
- Part 1. THE WORD
- Part 2. PHRASE AND WORD
- REFERENCES
- 7. NONCYCLIC ENGLISH WORD STRESS
- REFERENCES
- 8. STRESS RULES IN ENGLISH: A NEW VERSION
- Addendum
- REFERENCES
- 9. ENGLISH WORD STRESS: AN EXAMINATION OF SOME BASIC ASSUMPTIONS
- 0. Introduction
- 1. The cycle and word-stress
- 2. Accentual properties of affixes
- 3.The stress-weakening convention
- 4.Vowel reduction strictly linked to lack of stress
- 5.The 'stress retraction' rules
- 6. The Main Stress Rule in nouns and in verbs
- 7. Use of readjustment rules to modify boundaries
- 8. Stress as a lexical category
- 9. Restrictions on disjunctive ordering
- 10. The rule system
- 11. The rule system restated
- REFERENCES
- Part three. The Vowel System of English
- INTRODUCTION
- 10. PROBLEMS IN THE INTERPRETATION OF THE GREAT ENGLISH VOWEL SHIFT
- 1. Relation to other work
- 2. Issues relating to the vowel shift
- 3. Versions of the vowel shift
- 4. Relation of synchronic vowel shift rules to history
- 5. Possible constraints on switching rules
- 6. External evidence about the history
- 7. Evidence from dialects
- REFERENCES
- 11. ON THE VALIDITY OF THE CHOMSKY-HALLE ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORICAL ENGLISH VOWEL SHIFT
- REFERENCES
- 12. SOME THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE GREAT VOWEL SHIFT
- 13. VOWEL FEATURES, PAIRED VARIABLES, AND THE ENGLISH VOWEL SHIFT
- REFERENCES
- 14. UNDERLYING VOWELS IN MODERN ENGLISH
- REFERENCES
- 15. REVIEW OF THE SOUND PATTERN OF ENGLISH
- REFERENCES
- Part four. Fundamental Principles of Phonology
- INTRODUCTION
- 16. ON THE NEED FOR A PHONOLOGICAL BASE
- Phonological symmetry in pre-Chomskyan linguistics
- Base and conversion rules
- Arguments against a phonological base
- Some inadequacies in the theory of systematic phonetics
- For a historical interpretation of phonological rules
- Against a synchronic interpretation of 1968 phonology
- Conclusion
- REFERENCES
- 17. HOW INTRINSIC IS CONTENT? MARKEDNESS, SOUND CHANGE, AND 'FAMILY UNIVERSALS'
- 1. Markedness and historical 'explanation': the front round vowels in Ger-manic
- 2. 'Naturalness' and the statistical fallacy
- 3. Historical change and language-specific 'naturalness': the retroflex stops in Dravidian and Indo-European
- 4. Some characteristics of a genuinely 'nonnormal' category: Indo-European segments in Kannada
- 5. Implications for 'universal phonetics'
- REFERENCES
- 18. ON SOME FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF PHONOLOGY
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Redundancies
- 3. Underlying Forms
- 4, Phonological Rules
- 5. The evaluation measure
- REFERENCES
- APPENDIX
- Indexes
- LANGUAGE INDEX
- WORD INDEX
- AFFIX INDEX
- SUBJECT INDEX
