Were they [left-quote]dropping their aitches'? A quantitative study of h- loss in Middle English  

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Crisma, Paola

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English Language and Linguistics (Full Text & ada di PROQUEST th. 2005 - terbaru) vol. 11 no. 1 (Mar. 2007), page 51-80.
Fulltext: vol11.1;51-80.pdf (184.52KB)

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In this article I present extensive quantitative evidence showing that it is possible to distinguish different Middle English varieties on the basis of the treatment of wordinitial h-, and that it is necessary to postulate that, in some varieties, word-initial hfails to surface in given contexts, though being present as a consonantal phoneme in the underlying representation. This casts a new light on the old problem of whether wordinitial h- was lost in Middle English and restored at a later stage: the data presented here suggest that h- loss was never generalized, though h-less forms did surface as contextual variants of h-ful forms.2H,ðõÛ

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