The Lexical and Metrical Phonology of English: The Legacy of the Sound Pattern of English

John T. Jensen (University of Ottawa)

The Lexical and Metrical Phonology of English: The Legacy of the Sound Pattern of English
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
26 May 2022
Pages
320
ISBN
9781108794916

The Lexical and Metrical Phonology of English: The Legacy of the Sound Pattern of English

John T. Jensen (University of Ottawa)

This is the first full-scale discussion of English phonology since Chomsky and Halle’s seminal The Sound Pattern of English (SPE). The book enphasizes the analysis using ordered rules and builds on SPE by incorporating lexical and metrical and prosodic analysis and the insights afforded by Lexical Phonology. It provides clear explanations and logical development throughout, introducing rules individually and then illustrating their interactions. These features make this influential theory accessible to students from a variety of backgrounds in linguistics and phonology. Rule-ordering diagrams summarize the crucial ordering of approximately 85 rules. Many of the interactions result in phonological opacity, where either the effect of a rule is not evident in the output or its conditions of application are not present in the output, due to the operation of later rules. This demonstrates the superiority of a rule-based account over output oriented approaches such as Optimality Theory or pre-Generative structuralist phonology.

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