Markedness and faithfulness in vowel systems
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Markedness and faithfulness in vowel systems
（Outstanding dissertations in linguistics）
Routledge, 2012
- : pbk
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Rev. version of the author's dissertation (Ph.D.)
Includes bibliographical references and index
"First issued in paperback 2012"--T.p. verso
"A Routledge series"--Added t.p
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Miglio argues that to assess the relative markedness of a segment, frequency of occurrence in vowel inventories is insufficient when considered on its own. In its analysis of the Great Vowel Shift, this book elaborates a more useful model of a unitary change even in a surface-oriented theory such as optimality theory, with the help of local conjunction. Miglio extends the device of local conjunction to model opaque relations, and calls for reranking and lexicon optimization as the means to capture change within optimality theory.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Vowel Systems
- Chapter 2 Mantuan Vowel Deletion
- Chapter 3 Romance Vowel Reduction Phenomena
- Chapter 4 Mantuan Chain Shifts
- Chapter 5 Diachronic Chain Shiftst aEURO" The Great Vowel Shift
- Chapter 6 Conclusions
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