This book describes Optimality Theory from the top down, explaining and exploring the
central premises of OT and the results that follow from them. Examples are drawn from …

A thorough and fascinating exploration of the evolution of English'phonological structure,
this book traces the history of individual sounds and their representation through Old …

As the title of this part of the volume indicates, the study of sound change1 compels us to
think hard about the relationship between phonological structure and what lies beyond: the …

This dissertation addresses the questions raised by two opposite types of interaction
between phonological processes: opacity and globality. Special consideration is given to …

Vowels in stressed syllables in the West Germanic languages-eg Middle English, Middle
Dutch and Middle High German-were lengthened under certain circumstances. There have …

This article adopts the perspective of Optimality Theory (OT) to address the question whether
phonology and syntax are equally autonomous. We show that OT enjoys the same …

The English language has undergone many sound changes in its long history. Some of
these changes had a profound effect on the pronunciation of the language. A number of …

Previous studies have been largely unsuccessful in investigating Middle English quantity
changes in terms of moraic or foot structure. The present study approaches quantity changes …

Trisyllabic shortening or TSS is one of the most controversial processes in the history of
English. Time after time, claims have been made about quantity variations, attributing them …

This book reconstructs aspects of linguistic prosody from the medieval records of two closely
related Germanic languages, English and Norse. Evidence is drawn from a series of case …