From Regularity to Anomaly: Inflectional I-umlaut in Middle English

accent adjectives alliteration allophones analogical Antonsen assigned Band clusters coda consonantal consonants dat.pl dat.sg deletion dialect of Middle diphthongs epenthesis epenthesis theories evidence extrametrical fader final foot frend gen.pl gen.sg Germanic languages Gothic halde half-line Hogg i-mutation i-umlaut i-umlaut in Old imp.pl imp.sg inflectional interpretation lexemes lexical Lexical Stressing linguistic mann McCully McCully's metrical structure Middle English monosyllabic mora morpheme morphological i-umlaut mouillierung mutated node nom.pl nom.sg nouns OESR Old English Stress Old High German Old Norse older Germanic languages onset optimal patterning palatalised paradigm Penzl phonetic phonological pl.pres plural positive prefix preserved pret.ptc preterite Proto-Germanic regularisation rhyme rhythmeme root stems Rückumlaut scholars segments sonority spelling strong verbs subj.pl.pres subj.sg.pres suffixes superlative Suphi syllabification syllable structure syllable weight syncope texts umlaut alternations umlaut vowels umlauted forms unstressed syllables variation verse vocalic Vokal vowel harmony weak word tree