Phonological evidence for morphological complexity in English proper names

This paper presents the results and an analysis of a large dataset of complex English proper names such as Cambridge, Manchester or Washington, inspired by previous work on Dutch place-names (Köhnlein 2015). Those names provide new evidence that words that do not have transparent semantics may still...

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Published in:	Anglophonia
Main Author:	Quentin Dabouis
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Presses Universitaires du Midi 2023-11-01
Subjects:	proper name morphology-phonology interface toponyms semantic opacity English phonology
Online Access:	https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/5390