Quantity adjustment : vowel lengthening and shortening in early middle English /
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 analy...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1994.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in linguistics.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
