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Towards an explanation of phonetic differentiation in masculine and feminine personal names

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2000

CAROLE HOUGH
CAROLE HOUGH
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
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Abstract

Recent research has identified characteristic differences between the phonetic structures of names and of ordinary nouns, with particularly distinctive patterns being exhibited by feminine personal names. No explanation has yet been found. This paper suggests that the solution lies not in the English sound system, as has previously been assumed, but in differences between the linguistic origins of the various types of material.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Linguistics , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , March 2000 , pp. 1 - 11
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press

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