Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Chapter 1. Schwa in the history of English 1
5. Chapter 2. More background: Accounts of schwa loss 15
6. Chapter 3. Textual evidence 35
7. Chapter 4. Phonological aspects of schwa loss 87
8. Chapter 5. Morphological aspects of schwa loss 125
9. Chapter 6. Early schwa deletion as a prosodie phenomenon 155
10. Chapter 7. Schwa preservation in Late Middle English as a prosodie phenomenon 171
11. Bibliography 193
12. Index 217