Robert P. Stockwell

List of John Benjamins publications in which Robert P. Stockwell is involved.

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Stockwell, Robert P. 1998 From English Philology to Linguistics and Back Again First Person Singular III: Autobiographies by North American scholars in the language sciences, Koerner, E.F.K. † (ed.), pp. 227–246 | Article

Stockwell, Robert P. and Donka Minkova 1997 Old English Metrics and the Phonology of Resolution NOWELE Volume 31/32 (November 1997): Germanic Studies, Goblirsch, Kurt Gustav, Martha Berryman Mayou and Marvin Taylor (eds.), pp. 389–406 | Article

Stockwell, Robert P. 1996 Old English short diphthongs and the theory of Glide emergence English Historical Linguistics 1994: Papers from the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (8 ICEHL, Edinburgh, 19–23 September 1994), Britton, Derek (ed.), pp. 57–72 | Article

Minkova, Donka and Robert P. Stockwell 1994 Syllable Weight, Prosody, and Meter in Old English Diachronica 11:1, pp. 35–64 | Article

SUMMARY Nearly all recent studies of Old English prosody have argued that main stress is fixed by phonological rules which make reference to syllable weight. We claim that such arguments are wrong, partly because they depend on still dubious assumptions about the scansion of Old English verse, and… read more

Stockwell, Robert P. 1993 On the evidence for bimoric vowels in Early English Historical Linguistics 1991: Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12–16, 1991, Marle, Jaap van (ed.), pp. 315–324 | Article

Stockwell, Robert P. and Donka Minkova 1990 The Early Modern English Vowels, More O' Lass Diachronica 7:2, pp. 199–214 | Article

SUMMARY Roger Lass has proposed radical revisions of widely known assessments of some of the evidence concerning the pronunciation of early modern English. We accept many of his claims, but we argue that his revisions are wrong on one central point, and questionable in three less important ones.… read more

Stockwell, Robert P. and Donka Minkova 1990 Verb phrase conjunction in Old English Historical Linguistics 1987: Papers from the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Lille, August 30-September 4, 1987, Andersen, Henning and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 499–516 | Article

Stockwell, Robert P. 1985 Assessment of alternative explanations of the middle English phenomenon of high vowel lowering when lengthened in the open syllable Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 10–13, 1985, Eaton, Roger, Olga Fischer, Willem F. Koopman and Frederike van der Leek (eds.), pp. 303–318 | Article

Stockwell, Robert P. 1975 10 Problems in the Interpretation of the Great English Vowel Shift Essays on the Sound Pattern of English, Goyvaerts, Didier L. and Geoffrey K. Pullum (eds.), pp. 331–353 | Article