Positional Faithfulness

Positional Faithfulness
Author: Jill N. Beckman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2013-04-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136532048


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First published in 1999. This study developed from a dissertation in 1993, when the author undertook what she thought would be a simple Optimality Theory analysis of Shona vowel harmony. Having initially treated Shona height harmony as a case of featural alignment, akin to Kirchner's 1993 analysis of Turkish she realized that alignment constraints alone could not account for one central aspect of the Shona case: the priority of initial syllable features in determining the outcome of harmony. This volume of research outlines the authirs discoveries.


Positional Faithfulness
Language: en
Pages: 311
Authors: Jill N. Beckman
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-11 - Publisher: Routledge

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First published in 1999. This study developed from a dissertation in 1993, when the author undertook what she thought would be a simple Optimality Theory analys
Existential Faithfullness
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Caro Struijke
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-23 - Publisher: Routledge

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First Published in 2003. Initially a doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Maryland at College Park in August 2000, this book is a revised versio
Vowel Patterns in Language
Language: en
Pages: 367
Authors: Rachel Walker
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Linguists researching the sounds of languages do not just study lists of sounds but seek to discover generalizations about sound patterns by grouping them into
Positional Faithfulness
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Jill N. Beckman
Categories: Asymmetry (Linguistics)
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Phonological Augmentation in Prominent Positions
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Jennifer L. Smith
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-07-01 - Publisher: Routledge

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Phonologically prominent or "strong" positions are well known for their ability to resist positional neutralization processes such as vowel reduction or place a