Phonological Weakness in English

Notes on Contributors Introduction: D.Minkova PART I: PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF WEAKNESS Treatments of Weakness in Phonological Theory; K.R.Zuraw Testing Consonant Weakness Phonetically; L.Lavoie PART II: DIAGNOSING AND INTERPRETING ENGLISH SCHWA(S) On Schwa: Synchronic Prelude and Historical Fugue; R.Lass The Phonetics of Schwa Vowels; E.Flemming PART III: HISTORICAL AND DIALECTAL CASE STUDIES Perspectives on Weakness From English /r/; A.McMahon Weak Segments in Irish English; R.Hickey Word-Initial h- in Middle and Early Modern English; P.Crisma Consonant or 'Vowel'? A Diachronic Study of Initial h From Early Middle English to Nineteenth-Century English; J.Schlüter PART IV: PROSODIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF WEAKNESS Weak Segments and Syllable Structure in Middle English; J.Schlüter Orthographic Indications of Weakness in Early Middle English; M.Laing Inflectional Syncope vs Epenthesis: Notes on the History of the Weak Preterite in English; D.Minkova Index