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English Prosodic Morphology

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. Sabine Lappe

    1. University of Siegen, Germany

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  • Comprehensive empirical analysis of the major truncatory patterns in English
  • Broad coverage of structural aspects (segmental, phonotactic, suprasegmental)
  • Critical evaluation of pertinent theories in light of the empirical facts
  • Optimality-theoretic implementation
  • Systematic account of the variability within and between truncatory patterns

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-2

  3. English Prosodic Morphology: Morphology

    • Sabine Lappe
    Pages 3-30

  4. English Prosodic Morphology: Prosody

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    Pages 31-57

  5. The Patterns

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    Pages 59-75

  6. The Structure of Monosyllabic Truncated Names

    • Sabine Lappe
    Pages 77-106

  7. The Structure of Y-Hypocoristics

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    Pages 107-138

  8. The Structure of Clippings

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    Pages 139-166

  9. Constraint Interaction: Word Structure

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    Pages 167-205

  10. Constraint Interaction: Syllable Structure

    • Sabine Lappe
    Pages 207-240

  11. Constraint Interaction: Cluster Phonotactics

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    Pages 241-285

  12. Constraint Interaction: Segmental Changes

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    Pages 287-302

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 303-329
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About this book

In the past years I have spent much of my time writing what in the end has become a very long book about very short words. What has emerged is a complex, but also a clear and empirically founded picture of the structural properties of English tr- cated words as well as an optimality-theoretic model of these properties in the research tradition of Prosodic Morphology. These will be of use to linguists int- ested in the structure of English as well as to those interested in phonological and / or morphological theory. I have deliberately kept separate the empirical analysis and the theoretical account of the data, so that the book can be used by scholars working within OT as well as by those who do not. Finally, the style as well as the structure of the text are such that the book may not only have an academic readership, but may also be recommended as supplementary reading in pertinent university courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. The project had its origins in a small analysis of a few structural aspects of English truncated names that I did as part of the requirements for a graduate se- nar on Prosodic Morphology at the University of Marburg, taught by Ingo Plag and Birgit Alber.

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  • University of Siegen, Germany

    Sabine Lappe

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