A uniquely focused collection addressing the identification, functional properties, and broader consequences of phonological weakness over a broad chronological range, from Old to Present-Day English and its varieties, enriching the phonological literature with fresh empirical findings from a variety of sources.

PAOLA CRISMA, University of Trieste, Italy EDWARD FLEMMING, MIT, USA RAMOND HICKEY, Essen University MARGARET LAING, Institute for Historical Dialectology, University of Edinburgh, UK ROGER LASS is Professor Emeritus and Senior Professorial Fellow at University of Cape Town, South Africa LISA LAVOIE, Eliza Corporation and Emerson College APRIL McMAHON, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh, UK JULIA SCHL?TER, University of Bamberg, Germany KIE ROSS ZURAW, University of California, Los Angeles, USA