13.978, Qs: Great V Shift, Eng Syllable Shape Frequencies
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Subject: 13.978, Qs: Great V Shift, Eng Syllable Shape Frequencies
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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 14:57:01 +0200
From: Cornelia Gerhardt <c.gerhardt at mx.uni-saarland.de>
Subject: The Great Vowel Shift
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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 08:59:11 -0500
From: "Dr Martin J. Ball" <mjb0372 at louisiana.edu>
Subject: Syllable shape frequencies in English
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 14:57:01 +0200
From: Cornelia Gerhardt <c.gerhardt at mx.uni-saarland.de>
Subject: The Great Vowel Shift
Dear fellow linguists,
I am looking for publications that discuss the following
sociolinguistic explanation of what caused the Great Vowel Shift in
English (see Jeremy Smith. 1996. An historical study of English:
Function, form and change. London: Routledge.) To put it in a
nutshell, the trigger was that East-Anglians and the 'Mopsae'
hyperadapted certain features of upper-class London speech.
Thank you for bibliographical information or your opinion,
I'll post a summary.
Cornelia Gerhardt
Lehrstuhl für englische Sprachwissenschaft
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany
c.gerhardt at mx.uni-saarland.de
-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 08:59:11 -0500
From: "Dr Martin J. Ball" <mjb0372 at louisiana.edu>
Subject: Syllable shape frequencies in English
I wonder if colleagues could point me towards any references on
syllable shape frequencies in English (any variety)? Specifically I
want to know the relative frequency in representative texts of open as
opposed to closed syllables; and for closed syllables I wish to find
out the relative frequency of final stops, fricatives, nasals and
liquids.
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