The Lexical and Metrical Phonology of English: The Legacy of the Sound Pattern of English

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John T. Jensen (University of Ottawa)

The Lexical and Metrical Phonology of English

The Legacy of the Sound Pattern of English

John T. Jensen (University of Ottawa)

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Cambridge University Press
26 May 2022

Phonetics, phonology; Lexicography

This is the first full-scale discussion of English phonology since Chomsky and Halle's seminal The Sound Pattern of English (SPE). The book enphasizes the analysis using ordered rules and builds on SPE by incorporating lexical and metrical and prosodic analysis and the insights afforded by Lexical Phonology. It provides clear explanations and logical development throughout, introducing rules individually and then illustrating their interactions. These features make this influential theory accessible to students from a variety of backgrounds in linguistics and phonology. Rule-ordering diagrams summarize the crucial ordering of approximately 85 rules. Many of the interactions result in phonological opacity, where either the effect of a rule is not evident in the output or its conditions of application are not present in the output, due to the operation of later rules. This demonstrates the superiority of a rule-based account over output oriented approaches such as Optimality Theory or pre-Generative structuralist phonology.

By: John T. Jensen (University of Ottawa)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 770g
ISBN: 9781108841504
ISBN 10: 1108841503
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 26 May 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

John T. Jensen is the author of Morphology: Word Structure in Generative Grammar (1990), English Phonology (1993), and Principles of Generative Phonology: An Introduction (2004). He has published articles in Phonology, Linguistic Inquiry, Language, Linguistic Analysis, Nordic Journal of Linguistics, Papers in Linguistics, and Glossa.

Reviews for The Lexical and Metrical Phonology of English: The Legacy of the Sound Pattern of English

'Jensen's book constitutes a rich collection of facts and analyses on English phonology, which makes it a useful read for advanced students of English Quentin Dabouis, Phonology '... very rich, valuable and interesting...' Quentin Dabouis, Phonology