Diachronic dynamics of Middle English phonotactics provide evidence for analogy effects among lexical and morphonotactic consonant clusters
Consonant clusters that rarely occur lexically (i.e. within morphemes) may function as complexity markers when they span a morpheme boundary, i.e. when they occur morphonotactically. In this study we observe patterns in the diachronic dynamics of Middle English which hint at mutually beneficial effe...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Papers in Historical Phonology |
| Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/1693 |