Double consonants in English: graphemic, morphological, prosodic and etymological determinants
Double consonants in English: graphemic, morphological, prosodic and etymological determinants
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英语中的双辅音：字形、形态、韵律和词源决定因素
DOI：
10.1007/s11145-015-9610-z
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
2.5
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Kristian
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Kristian
什么决定了英语中辅音的加倍？这个问题是追求通过使用一个大型的词汇数据库，建立系统的拼写，语音和形态之间的相关性。本文的主要观点是：辅音重叠在语素边界处最有规律。它可以单独用字形术语来描述，即不涉及音位学。在单语素词中，辅音加倍主要取决于词的词尾。某些词尾与双辅音相关（如in），而其他词尾与单辅音相关（如in）。更重要的是，词尾的字形形式决定了双辅音的存在或不存在：例如，词尾<-ic>和<-ick>是同音的，但前者几乎总是与单辅音（例如）一起出现，后者与双辅音（例如）一起出现。这使得字形词尾成为特殊的实体：像后缀一样，它们是重复出现的，它们具有分布特性，但与后缀不同的是，它们没有形态句法或语义功能。
What determines consonant doubling in English? This question is pursued by using a large lexical database to establish systematic correlations between spelling, phonology and morphology. The main insights are: Consonant doubling is most regular at morpheme boundaries. It can be described in graphemic terms alone, i.e. without reference to phonology. In monomorphemic words, consonant doubling depends mostly on the word ending. Certain endings correlate with double consonants (e.g. as in ), while others correlate with single consonants (e.g. as in ). What is more, it is the graphemic form of the word ending that determines the presence or absence of double consonants: The word endings <-ic> and <-ick>, for example, are homophonous, but the former almost always occurs with single consonants (e.g. ), the latter with double consonants (e.g. ). That makes graphemic word endings peculiar entities: Like suffixes, they are recurring and they have distributional properties—but unlike suffixes, they have no morphosyntactic or semantic function.