Vowel lengthening before resonant + another consonant and svarabhakti in Germanic

Liberman, Anatoly

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“…I myself discussed epenthesis in Liberman (1992;esp. The comparison is based on Robert Howell's idea of liquid reduction, though Suzuki modifies it slightly.…”

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“…I myself discussed epenthesis in Liberman (1992;esp. The comparison is based on Robert Howell's idea of liquid reduction, though Suzuki modifies it slightly.…”

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“… 1 See also e.g. Wells (1887: 134), Venezky (1965: 158), Wełna (1987: 70, 2000: 477), King (1988: 161, 167, 172; 1992: 135); Kniezsa (1988: 15), Liberman (1992: 165); Ritt (1992: 209; 1994: 10–11), Liuzza (1996: 37), Fulk (1999: 201).…”

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Acute accents as graphic markers of vowel quantity in two Late Old English manuscripts

Mokrowiecki¹

2015

English Language and Linguistics

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The available standard accounts of Old and Middle English usually assert that scribes paid very little or no attention to vowel quantity. However, a great deal of what has been said so far about quantitative changes in Late Old and Early Middle English is based either on purely theoretical models, or on extremely questionable Modern English data. Surprisingly, except for a few more detailed studies on the peculiar orthography of The Ormulum, little has been done so far to analyse other orthographic systems from this perspective. Furthermore, as has already been shown in earlier studies, vowel quantity of Old and Middle English can be reconstructed to some extent on the basis of orthographic evidence from some manuscripts. Since use of the accent mark by some scribes is often associated with vowel length, the primary aim of the present study is to assess the reliability of the accent marks used in MSS Gg. 3.28 (Homilies of AElfric) and William H. Scheide (The Blickling Homilies) as potential orthographic indicators of vowel quantity. The results of the analysis clearly show that the accent mark is one of those orthographic notations that can be extremely helpful in establishing vowel quantity in a Late Old English manuscript.

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Homorganic Cluster Lengthening, Pre-Cluster Shortening and Preference-based change in Early English

Kruger

2020

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This paper discusses the processes of Homorganic Cluster Lengthening (HCL) and Pre-Cluster Shortening (PCS) occurring in the late Old English and Early Middle English periods. These processes are responsible, respectively, for vowel-lengthening before voiced homorganic consonant clusters (OE bindan, feld, hund > LOE/EME bīnd, fēld, hūnd) and vowel shortening before other clusters (OE cēpte, fīfta, brōhte > ME kepte, fifte, brohte). This paper builds on reassessments of data by Minkova (2014) to contribute an account of HCL within the system of “preference laws” articulated by Vennemann (1988). This account attributes the motivation for HCL to preferences for syllable-internal transitions between nucleus and coda in order to explain the fine details of HCL; namely, the fact that HCL applies with higher frequency to high vowels followed nasals than to low/mid vowels and in a sporadic manner to front vowels followed by /l/ compared to back vowels. These differences are attributed to the application of the Coda and Nucleus Laws (Vennemann 1988: 25, 42), with additional proposals about the effect of velarization of /l/ in Old English, with comparison to PCS providing important context throughout.

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Vowel lengthening before resonant + another consonant and svarabhakti in Germanic

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