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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Donka Minkova is an American-Bulgarian linguist and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Books The History of Final Vowels in English English Words: History and Structure Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English A Historical Phonology of English
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- English Words: History and Structure (2001) (120)
- English Words (2020) (76)
- Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English: List of figures (2003) (73)
- The History of Final Vowels in English: The Sound of Muting (1991) (65)
- THE ENVIRONMENT FOR OPEN SYLLABLE LENGTHENING IN MIDDLE ENGLISH (1982) (64)
- A millennial perspective (2002) (58)
- Studies in the history of the English language : a millennial perspective (2002) (58)
- A Historical Phonology of English (2013) (53)
- English Words by Robert Stockwell (2001) (49)
- Constraint ranking in Middle English stress-shifting (1997) (45)
- Syllable Weight, Prosody, and Meter in Old English (1994) (37)
- On drifts and shifts (1997) (29)
- Phonemically contrastive fricatives in Old English?1 (2011) (29)
- Phonological weakness in English : from old to present-day English (2009) (28)
- Subordination and word order change in the history of English (1991) (27)
- Philology, linguistics, and the history of [hw]~[w] (2004) (26)
- English Words: Frontmatter (2009) (24)
- Ablaut reduplication in English: the criss-crossing of prosody and verbal art (2002) (22)
- Alliteration and sound change in early English (2003) (21)
- Old English Metrics and the Phonology of Resolution (1997) (19)
- Of Rhyme and reason: some foot-governed quantity changes in English (1985) (16)
- Chaucerian phonemics: Evidence and interpretation (1997) (16)
- Dialect, Rhyme, and Emendation in Sir Tristrem (2014) (16)
- The Credibility of Pseudo-Alfred: Prosodic Insights in Post-Conquest Mongrel Meter (1997) (16)
- The Early Modern English Vowels, More O' Lass (1990) (14)
- English Vowel Shifts and ‘Optimal’ Diphthongs (2003) (13)
- Verse structure as evidence for prosodic reconstruction in Old English (1996) (13)
- Prefixation and stress in Old English1 In memoriam Richard Hogg (1944–2007) (2008) (11)
- Old and Middle English Prosody (2008) (11)
- Studies in the History of the English Language IV: Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change (2008) (11)
- Verb phrase conjunction in Old English (1990) (9)
- Homorganic clusters as moric busters in the history of English: the case of -ld, -nd, -mb (1992) (9)
- Phonological Weakness in English (2009) (8)
- Explanations of Sound Change: Contradictions between Dialect Data and Theories of Chain Shifting (1999) (8)
- Chaucer and the Challenges of Medievalism: Studies in Honor of H. A. Kelly (2003) (6)
- Against the emergence of the nuclear stress rule in Middle English (1997) (6)
- The origins of long-short allomorphy in English (1998) (6)
- From stop-fricative clusters to contour segments in Old English (2016) (6)
- On leapfrogging in historical phonology (1993) (5)
- Syllable ONSET in the history of English (2000) (5)
- Interpreting the Old and Middle English close vowels (2002) (4)
- Inflated-Parameter Modification of the Pure Birth Process (2001) (4)
- Kuhn's Laws and Verb-Second: On Kendall's theory of syntactic displacement in Beowulf (1992) (4)
- The Cambridge History of the English Language: Vol. III—1476 to 1776 (2001) (3)
- Against the notion "metrical grammar" (1997) (3)
- Kuhn's laws and rise of verb-second syntax (1994) (3)
- Adjectival inflexion relics and speech rhythm in late middle English and early modern English (1990) (3)
- Middle English Open Syllable Lengthening (MEOSL) or Middle English Compensatory Lengthening (MECL)? (2020) (3)
- A Book of Middle English . By John A. Burrow & Thorlac Turville-Petre (1993) (3)
- The prosodic character of early schwa deletion in English (1987) (2)
- What happened to Old English clitic pronouns and why (2000) (2)
- Chapter 10. English word clipping in a diachronic perspective (2018) (2)
- Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English: Syllable structure (2003) (2)
- Establishing Phonemic Contrast in Written Sources (2015) (2)
- The Forms of Verse (2007) (2)
- Introduction: Heuristics and evidence in studying the history of the English language (2008) (2)
- Phonology: Segmental Histories (2009) (2)
- Velars and Palatals in Old English Alliteration (1998) (2)
- The Forms of Speech (2007) (1)
- On the meter of Middle English alliterative verse (2009) (1)
- The history of /-n/ loss in English: Phonotactic change with lexical and grammatical specificity (2019) (1)
- A U-turn and its consequences for the history of final schwa in English (2015) (1)
- Proximate mechanisms vs. causal explanations (1999) (1)
- Norman Blake (ed.), The Cambridge history of the English language : Vol. II, 1066–1476. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xxi + 703. (1994) (1)
- Examining the Evidence for Phonemic Affricates: Middle English /t͡ʃ/, /d͡ʒ/ or [t-ʃ], [d-ʒ]? (2019) (1)
- English Words: Index (2009) (1)
- Perfect and Imperfect Rhyme: Romances in the abab Tradition (2014) (1)
- Middle English prosodic innovations and their testability in verse (2000) (1)
- 4. First or best, last not least: Domain edges in the history of English (2020) (1)
- Preface to the second edition and acknowledgements (2009) (1)
- Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English: Verse evidence for cluster simplification in Middle English (2003) (1)
- Verse structure in the Middle English Genesis and Exodus (1992) (1)
- Preference theory and the uneven progress of degemination in Middle English (2021) (1)
- Early English Metre. Thomas A. Bredehoft (2008) (1)
- Richard M. Hogg (ed.), The Cambridge history of the English language . Vol. I: The beginnings to 1066. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xxiii + 609. (1994) (1)
- Are Diphthongs Neglected (1998) (1)
- Inflectional Syncope vs. Epenthesis: Notes on the History of the Weak Preterite in English (2009) (1)
- Special issue on verse structure and linguistic modelling: introductory notes (2022) (0)
- Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English: Social and linguistic setting of alliterative verse in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England (2003) (0)
- Book review (1996) (0)
- Chapter 3. Textual evidence (1991) (0)
- English Words: Word-origins (2009) (0)
- Smaller than words: morphemes and types of morphemes (2001) (0)
- Chapter 2. More background: Accounts of schwa loss (1991) (0)
- A history of the English language, and: A history of the English language, and: The Oxford history of English (review) (2010) (0)
- Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English: ONSET and cluster alliteration in Old English: the case of sp-, st-, sk- (2003) (0)
- Metrical resolution, spelling, and the reconstruction of Old English syllabification (2015) (0)
- Ambisyllabicity in English: present and past (2016) (0)
- English Words: Fossilized allomorphy: false cognates and other etymological pitfalls (2001) (0)
- Piotr Gąsiorowski, The phonology of Old English stress and metrical structure. Bamberger Beiträge zur englischen Sprachwissenschaft: Bd. 39. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. x + 131. £20, ISBN 3 631 31363 2. (1998) (0)
- English Words: An introduction to the textbook (2001) (0)
- Appendix: morpheme list (2009) (0)
- Chapter 5. Morphological aspects of schwa loss (1991) (0)
- Chapter 4: Prosody (2017) (0)
- Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English: Linguistic structures in English alliterative verse (2003) (0)
- On the role of prosodic features in syntactic change (1992) (0)
- English Words: An introduction to dictionaries (2001) (0)
- English Words: Smaller than words: morphemes and types of morphemes (2009) (0)
- Chapter 6. Early schwa deletion as a prosodie phenomenon (1991) (0)
- English Words: Semantic relations and semantic change (2009) (0)
- Composition of the Early Modern and Modern English vocabulary (2001) (0)
- Analysing Older English: Syllable weight and the weak-verb paradigms in Old English0 (2011) (0)
- Nominal Compounds in Old English Meter and Prosody (2023) (0)
- Chapter 1. Schwa in the history of English (1991) (0)
- The OED textual prototypes in the chronological structure of deverbatives : the evidence from Middle English (0)
- English Words: Allomorphy, phonetics, and affixation (2009) (0)
- Old and Middle English Phonology (2019) (0)
- ‘What strikes the ear’ (2010) (0)
- Charles Jones, A history of English phonology. London & New York: Longman Linguistics Library, 1989, Pp. xi + 318. (1991) (0)
- Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English: Preface (2003) (0)
- Of Rhyme and reason (1985) (0)
- Research Methods in Language Variation and Change: Reconstructing stress in Old and Middle English (2013) (0)
- Analysing Older English: General introduction (2011) (0)
- English Words: Deletion rules and other kinds of allomorphy (2001) (0)
- English Words: The background of English (2001) (0)
- Allomorphy, phonetics, and affixation (2001) (0)
- A brief response (2004) (0)
- Early metrical and lexicographical evidence for functional stress-shifts (2022) (0)
- Chapter 7. Schwa preservation in Late Middle English as a prosodie phenomenon (1991) (0)
- Segmental histories: velar palatalization (2003) (0)
- English Words: Semantic change and semantic guesswork (2001) (0)
- Chapter 4. Phonological aspects of schwa loss (1991) (0)
- English Words: Morpheme list (2001) (0)
- Old English: A historical linguistic companion . By Roger Lass. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xx, 300. (1995) (0)
- English Words: The pronunciation of classical words in English (2001) (0)
- Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English: ONSET and cluster alliteration in Middle English (2003) (0)
- English Words: Composition of the Early Modern and Modern English vocabulary (2001) (0)
- English Words: Replacement rules (2001) (0)
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