The Dialect of Holy Island: A Phonological AnalysisA phonological analysis of a modern English dialect based on the transformational generative theory. Using the theoretical framework of generative phonology as put forth by Chomsky and Halle, discussed in the introduction, this book contains a detailed description of the sound segments of the present day dialect of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne. It then attempts to analyse the underlying sound segments and to provide the set of ordered rules that generate the surface structure. It also gives evidence that the underlying sound segments are remarkably stable, both through time and space, and that the differences of the surface structures are due to strikingly minimal changes in the ordering of the set of phonological rules. |
Contents
Map of the Island 3 3456778 | 13 |
The Informants | 19 |
Examples | 51 |
Copyright | |
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affricates apply assume central off-glide Chomsky and Halle clusters complex concerned cons consonantal segments consonants context dental nasal dental stop derived dialect DIALECTOLOGY Dieth diphthongs earlier tensing examples fact feature specifications followed fricatives front vowel further furthermore grammar high back high front Holy Island hwę labial language latter lax low lax vocalic segments laxing rule lexical entries lexical representations lexicon Lindisfarne linguistic change low back round low front lowering MARKEDNESS mid front nasal Note occur output pairs palato-alveolar phonetic forms phonetic level PHONETIC REPRESENTATION phonological component phonological processes phonological rules place of articulation plosives precede relevant shift rule spirantization StE/æ strident string surface forms surrounding syntactic tense low back tensing rule trisyllabic laxing underlying representations underlying segments unrounding variants velar nasal velar stops vocalic nuclei voice vowel shift rule vowelshift word final word initially