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Alliteration and sound change in early English / Donka Minkova.

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This study uses evidence from early English verse to reconstruct the course of some central phonological changes in the history of the language. Examination of the behaviour of onset clusters sheds new light on the special treatment of sp-, st-, sk-, and the chronology and motivation of cluster redu...

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Main Author: Minkova, Donka, 1944-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Series:Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 101.
Subjects:
English language > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Phonology.
English language > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Versification.
English language > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > Versification.
English language > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > Phonology.
English language > Phonology, Historical.
Alliteration.
English language > Middle English > Phonology.
English language > Middle English > Versification.
English language > Old English > Phonology.
English language > Old English > Versification.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Abbreviations; Preface; 1 Social and linguistic setting of alliterative verse in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England; 2 Linguistic structures in English alliterative verse; 3 Segmental histories: velar palatalization; 4 Syllable structure; 5 ONSET and cluster alliteration in Old English: the case of sp-, st-, sk-; 6 ONSET and cluster alliteration in Middle English; 7 Verse evidence for cluster simplification in Middle English; References; Index of names; Subject index.

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