Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English

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Donka Minkova

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Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

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This study uses evidence from early English poetry to determine when certain sound changes took place in the transition from Old to Middle English. It builds on the premise that alliteration in early English verse reflects faithfully the identity and similarity of stressed syllable onsets; it is based on the acoustic signal and not on the visual identity of letters. Examination of the behaviour of onset clusters leads to new conclusions regarding the causes for the special treatment of sp-, st-, sk-, and the chronology and motivation of cluster reduction.

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Donka Minkova is Professor of English Language at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published widely in the fields of English and Germanic historical phonology and syntax, historical dialectology and English historical metrics. She is the author of The History of Final Vowels in English (1991) and of English Words: History and Structure (with Robert Stockwell, Cambridge, 2001). She is also co-editor, with Robert Stockwell of Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective.

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March 13th, 2003

Author

Donka Minkova

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Professional & Vocational

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4 Tables, unspecified; 2 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

422

Series

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

Dimensions

152x229x27

ISBN-13

9780521573177

Product ID

1770829

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