Vowel-shifting in the English language : an evolutionary account
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書誌事項
Vowel-shifting in the English language : an evolutionary account
（Topics in English linguistics / editor, Herman Wekker, v. 88）
De Gruyter Mouton, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-217) and index
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内容説明
English has long been suspected to be a vowel-shifting language. This hypothesis, often only adumbrated in previous work, is closely investigated in this book. Framed within a novel framework combining evolutionary linguistics and Optimality Theory, the account proposed here argues that the replacement of duration by quality as the primary cue to signaling vowel oppositions has resulted in the 'shiftiness' of many post-medieval English varieties.
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