Abstract Studying the complex interaction between phonological and morphological developments involved in the extensive reorganisation of nominal inflection in early English, we focus, primarily, on new inflectional endings that emerged by analogy in etymologically suffix-less paradigm forms of r-stems and root nouns. We argue that the analogical changes were essentially reactive to phonological developments, and to a large extent predictable in statistical terms. Investigating correlations in corpus data, we identify the factors that affected the probability that new analogical endings were adopted. The predictors of the directions of analogical change that we show to be robust include the syllable structure of the root, the salience of inherited and analogical inflectional markers, as well as their absolute and relative frequencies.

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形态的语音限制：来自古英语名词变位的证据

摘要研究早期英语中名词性拐点的广泛重组所涉及的语音和形态学发展之间的复杂相互作用，我们主要关注以词源少后缀的r-词干和根名词的类推形式出现的新拐点结尾。我们认为，类比变化本质上是对语音发展的反应，并且在很大程度上可以从统计学上预测。调查语料数据中的相关性，我们确定了影响采用新的类比结局的概率的因素。我们显示出强大的类比变化方向的预测变量包括根的音节结构，继承的和类似的拐点标记的显着性以及它们的绝对和相对频率。