From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 41373
Date: 2005-10-13
> There have been a whole series of "revisionist"Many thanks.
> publications about early English vowel quantity; the
> evidence for TRISH (as Roger Lass dubbed it) is discussed
> by Donka Minkova and Robert P. Stockwell (1996. "The
> Origins of Long-Short Allomorphy in English". [In:] Jacek
> Fisiak and Marcin Krygier [eds.], _Advances in English
> Historical Linguistics_, Berlin: Mouton. 211-39), and by
> Nikolaus Ritt (1994. _Quantity Adjustment: Vowel
> Lengthening and Shortening in Early Middle English_.
> Cambridge: CUP).