Quantity Adjustment: Vowel Lengthening and Shortening in Early Middle English

by Nikolaus Ritt

Book Overview

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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521022916
• ISBN13: 9780521022910
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"