The foot in the history of English: challenges to metrical coherence
Dresher & Lahiri (1991) propose that Old English displays ‘metrical coherence’: different phonological processes are sensitive to the same metrical structure. We consider how English has dealt with challenges to metrical coherence. We show that the resolved moraic trochee, assumed to characteriz...
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
2022
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