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Quantity Adjustment: Vowel Lengthening and Shortening in Early Middle English (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) Hardcover - 1995
by Ritt, Nikolaus
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- Title Quantity Adjustment: Vowel Lengthening and Shortening in Early Middle English (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
- Author Ritt, Nikolaus
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 218
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, 1994. 218p. Hardback. Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics. This is a unified account of all quantity changes affecting Engl
- Date 1995-02-24
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0521462320.G
- ISBN 9780521462327 / 0521462320
- Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.2 x 0.79 in (23.50 x 15.75 x 2.01 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects English language - Middle English, 1100-1500, English language - Middle English, 1100-1500
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94007605
- Dewey Decimal Code 427.02
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This is a unified account of all quantity changes affecting English stressed vowels during the Early Middle English period. Dr. Ritt discusses Homorganic Lengthening, Open Syllable Lengthening, Trisyllabic Shortening, and Shortening before Consonant Clusters. The study is based on a statistical analysis of the Modern English reflexes of the changes. The complete corpus of analysed data is made available to the reader in the appendices. All of the changes are shown to derive from basically the same set of quasi-universal tendencies, while apparent idiosyncrasies are shown to follow from factors that are independent of the underlying tendencies themselves. The role of tendencies - probabilistic laws in the description of language change - is given thorough theoretical treatment. In his aim to account for the changes as well as trace their chronology, Dr Ritt applies principles of Natural Phonology, and examines the conflict between phonological and morphological 'necessities'.