~~HIDEPAGE:search~~ = The Even Yearbook 5 (2002) == #49 ** volume ** [[:2002|5 (2002)]] \\ ** pages ** 139–149 \\ ** author ** [[:Péter Szigetvári]] \\ ** title ** Syncope in English \\ ** abstract ** English abounds in lexical consonant clusters; their nature and constraints on their occurrence are treated extensively in the phonological literature. There is, however, also a possibility for creating morpheme-internal consonant clusters postlexically, by syncope (also referred to as schwa-deletion, sonorant desyllabification or compression). In English, synchronic/dynamic syncope is always preceded – historically/derivationally – by SCF, for any C₁əC₂ ~ C₁C₂ alternation there exists an intermediate stage where C2 is syllabic; the reverse does not hold. This fact points to a strong connection between SCF and syncope. High vowel gliding is also mentioned, since it seems to be a special case of syncope. The paper looks at data presented in the LPD (Wells 1990). The aim is not to provide a theory to account for the data, rather to systematize the data to a certain extent in order to ease the task of further researchers. \\ ** PDF ** [[this>_media/02sz.pdf| full text]] \\ ** raw text ** [[02sz-raw]] \\ ** refs ** ++ ⟨BibTeX⟩ | \\ ''@article{even02sz, \\ author = {Péter Szigetvári}, \\ title = {Syncope in {E}nglish}, \\ year = 2002, \\ journal = {The Even Yearbook}, \\ volume = 5, \\ pages = {139--149}, \\ url = {http://seas.elte.hu/w/!even/02sz} \\ }''\\ ++ ++ ⟨RIS⟩ | \\ ''TY - JOUR \\ AU - Szigetvári,Péter \\ PY - 2002/// \\ TI - Syncope in English \\ T2 - The Even Yearbook \\ VL - 5 \\ SP - 139 \\ EP - 149 \\ UR - http://seas.elte.hu/w/!even/02sz \\ ER -''\\ ++ ++ ⟨txt⟩ | \\ '' Szigetvári, Péter. 2002. Syncope in English. The Even Yearbook 5: 139–149. http://seas.elte.hu/w/!even/02sz'' ++