SONORANTS CONSPIRACY: A UNIFIED SOLUTION TO VOWEL SYNCOPE AND BOGUS CLUSTERS IN ENGLISH

• Authors: Kijak Artur
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the paper is to explore three apparently unrelated phenomena, i.e. syllabic consonants, vowel syncope and bogus clusters and provide convincing evidence for their intimate relationship. Specifically, it is pointed out that all three phenomena have the same origin and stem from the expansionist behaviour of sonorants, which in turn is a reaction of the latter to a positional weakness. The author argues that a unified solution for the three structures is possible on condition that in English lexically present nuclei are never properly governed even by the strongest governors, that is, realised vowels. As a result the analysis contributes to the postulation of the governing-ability scale for different types of nuclei in English.

Keywords

EN

GOVERNMENT PHONOLOGY; SONORANT; VOWEL SYNCOPE

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Linguistica Silesiana
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 28
• Pages: 179-204
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kijak Artur

• Artur Kijak, Uniwersytet Slaski w Katowicach, ul. Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA064713