Interactions Between Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints in - Vowel System

Informationen zum Autor Viola Miglio received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1999. Her research interests include the phonology of Spanish and Romance languages, theoretical phonology, optimality theory, phonetics, and language change. She currently teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Investigates various phenomena affecting both stressed and unstressed vowels in Romance languages and analyses vowel reduction, which involves a change of vowel quality in stressless syllables that favours vowel qualities that are maximally distinguishable from one another. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 – The Great Vowel Shift; Chapter 6 Conclusions;

Product details

• Authors: Viola Giulia Miglio, Viola Miglio, MIGLIO VIOLA
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2004
• EAN: 9780415967808
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96780-8
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Outstanding Dissertations in L; Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics; Outstanding Dissertations in L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Phonetik, Phonologie, Französisch, Grammatik, Syntax und Morphologie