B. Elan Dresher
List of John Benjamins publications for which B. Elan Dresher plays a role.
Articles
2022 Chapter 2. The foot in the history of English: Challenges to metrical coherence English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaning, Los, Bettelou, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone and Graeme Trousdale (eds.), pp. 41–60 | Chapter
Dresher & Lahiri (1991) propose that Old English displays ‘metrical coherence’: different phonological processes are sensitive to the same metrical structure. We consider how English has dealt with challenges to metrical coherence. We show that the resolved moraic trochee, assumed to… read more
2015 The motivation for contrastive feature hierarchies in phonology Linguistic Variation 15:1, pp. 1–40 | Article
The notion that phonological features are organized into contrastive hierarchies has been entertained at different times in the history of linguistics. My main focus will be on the motivation for such hierarchies: what principles govern the ordering of the features? I will show that they have been… read more
2005 Main Stress Left in Early Middle English Historical Linguistics 2003: Selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11–15 August 2003, Fortescue, Michael, Eva Skafte Jensen, Jens Erik Mogensen and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 75–85 | Article
2003 Contrast and asymmetries in inventories Asymmetry in Grammar: Volume 2: Morphology, phonology, acquisition, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 239–257 | Article
1990 On the unity of the Mercian Second Fronting Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Adamson, Sylvia M., Vivien A. Law, Nigel Vincent and Susan Wright (eds.), pp. 141 ff. | Article