Old English Breaking as Sharing of Melody
Old English Breaking as Sharing of Melody

Summary/Abstract: Although Old English Breaking (OEB) is one of the most well-studied OE changes, it still remains one of the most controversial ones, as a substantial range of disagreement exists among scholars on almost all aspects of this change. In this paper we shall attempt to provide an account of OEB expressed in a CVCV framework of Government Phonology (cf. LOWENSTAMM 1996; CYRAN 2003; SCHEER 2004). The discussion is organised as follows: section 2 offers an overview of OEB concentrating on those aspects of the process which provoked most controversy in the literature, section 3 presents a CVCV analysis of OEB; finally, section 4 presents some conclusions.

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