Titlebook: English Prosodic Morphology; Sabine Lappe Book 2007 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007 English.Symbol.clipping.morphology.phonology

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Book 2007ex, but also a clear and empirically founded picture of the structural properties of English tr- cated words as well as an optimality-theoretic model of these properties in the research tradition of Prosodic Morphology. These will be of use to linguists int- ested in the structure of English as well

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English Prosodic Morphology: Morphology,ogical theory, focussing on two major questions: ? What can the research discipline of Prosodic Morphology (McCarthy & Prince 1986, 1993a et seq.) contribute to a definition of truncatory patterns in English? ? What is the status of truncated words in the English word formation system?

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English Prosodic Morphology: Prosody, phonological and, in particular, the prosodic characteristics of truncatory processes in English. Based on the desiderata, both empirical and theoretical, that will be shown to characterise the state of research, I will provide an outline of the central proposal of this book.

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The Patterns,rocesses. Whereas the three subsequent chapters will look at individual truncatory patterns, this chapter serves to provide the empirical foundation for the classification of the data into different patterns. We will see that, in spite of the fact that the data have been compiled for independent pur