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Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English

Posted By: step778
Date: 27 Jun 2024 10:53:54
Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English

Donka Minkova, "Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English"
English | 2003 | pages: 422 | ISBN: 0521573173, 0521032245 | PDF | 2,1 mb

This study uses evidence from early English poetry to determine when certain sound changes took place in the transition from Old to Middle English. It builds on the premise that alliteration in early English verse reflects faithfully the identity and similarity of stressed syllable onsets; it is based on the acoustic signal and not on the visual identity of letters. Examination of the behaviour of onset clusters leads to new conclusions regarding the causes for the special treatment of sp-, st-, sk-, and the chronology and motivation of cluster reduction.

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