The History of Final Vowels in English : : The Sound of Muting / / Donka Minkova.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Schwa in the history of English
- Chapter 2. More background: Accounts of schwa loss
- Chapter 3. Textual evidence
- Chapter 4. Phonological aspects of schwa loss
- Chapter 5. Morphological aspects of schwa loss
- Chapter 6. Early schwa deletion as a prosodie phenomenon
- Chapter 7. Schwa preservation in Late Middle English as a prosodie phenomenon
- Bibliography
- Index