1st Edition

The Phrase Phonology of English and French

By Elisabeth O. Selkirk Copyright 1980
418 Pages
by Routledge

422 Pages
by Routledge

422 Pages
by Routledge

This work, first published in 1980, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. This study concerns certain aspects of the relationship between syntax and phonology in English and French. In particular, it represents an investigation of the universal conventions and language-particular... Read more

Dedication;  Acknowledgements;  Table of contents;  Introduction;  1. The stress of non-lexical items in English  2. The segmental phrase phonology of English  3. The syntax of liaison in French  4. The phonology of liaison;  Bibliography

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